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Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by tryingagainbro »

Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

If you didn't know by now, assume it on all services. They promise the moon and then change the Privacy Policy when Wall Street demands 30% q2q growth.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by akuchling »

SirBugALot wrote: post #24
acdha wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We will also delete or anonymize your account data and settings across the Yahoo network. This includes the contents of your Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Contacts, Business Mail services provided with your Aabaco Small Business account, My Yahoo settings and more, including your Flickr photos and the statistics for your Flickr account, if applicable. The degree to which the Yahoo acquisition was purely negati…

It's terrible. Do you know any site similar to it that's as good as flickr used to be (i.e: being able to view/download original size pictures, and all the EXIF data galore)?

Flickr also has a search by CC license, which is good to have.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by zhengyi13 »

maxerickson wrote: post #26
Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

Take care though, they allow email address reuse.

How do they avoid HIPAA violations in that case? Or is that not at issue somehow?

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by intopieces »

soared wrote: post #15
Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

A fun test would be to post the data sharing policy of various services/apps and see how often someone posts a comment like this. Someone always posts a comment like this and it always feels, to me, like a knee-jerk reaction. They've had your data for years (and were previously not only irresponsible but likely shared it with countless other partners), what has changed now? Just because Yahoo is forthecoming about th…

The parent comment you're replying to is not telling people they should close their account, or even making a fuss about the data sharing. She's just giving people information that people might find helpful. Services like this often have labyrinthine processes for closing accounts, so it's nice to have a quick link for how to do it.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by trurl »

berbec wrote: post #30
trurl wrote: post #8

Any suggestions for migrating away from Flickr while preserving my data? Google, etc. don't really seem like they will be any more ethical.

1-user gsuite account. 1TB for $5/month

GSuite would be Google. I don't think an advertising company is really going to be that much better than Verizon. And if I just want 1TB of online storage I have better options. The question was about a "photo sharing" application not unlike Flickr.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by igravious »

humanrebar wrote: post #7

oath : noun; plural oaths ... 6. any profane expression; curse; swearword: "He slammed the door with a muttered oath." http://www.dictionary.com/browse/oath

Very clever, but

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2. a statement or promise strengthened by such an appeal.

Oath promises to connect over a billion people to a stable of brands that they love. The is Oath's promise, feel the .

“This is our promise to you. To connect your brand to over a billion crazy in love [in love with brands] people.“ https://www.oath.com/ [Can you kick it? Play video]

It's in the barftastic marketing-speak copy in the video.

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