PCWorld:
Oh, Yahoo. It was bad enough that the company already announced a breach exposing 500 million user accounts two years after it happened. Then late last night Yahoo revealed that it had uncovered another unrelated hack exposing the account details of one billion users. It’s not clear how much of that is overlap, but at this point does it really matter?
I don’t know about you, but I’m done. I wasn’t much of a Yahoo user to begin with but the uses I do have for the company are over.
I know that’s easy for me to say. I have a single account that I only use to play fantasy football. But what about those of you who are more fully invested in Yahoo? Here’s a guide to replacing Yahoo’s major services with alternative options, then deleting your Yahoo account.
I got the notice from Yahoo yesterday. I didn’t even know I still had Yahoo email addresses. I’m now down to just using Flickr and even those days may be numbered.
Do this now. I just did and aZI feel like a million bucks
Anyone use disposable/temp accounts and aliasing? I use this extensively and Yahoo Mail had the best implementation of that feature. Not much use if the whole account is insecure though.
GMail sucks at it. Apple can’t be bothered to do anything beyond the basics. Haven’t looked into Outlook or ProtonMail.
As much as Yahoo has become a problem, if I can’t find anything comparable I might just move the important stuff to Apple and use Yahoo for spam control and fantasy football.
I don’t use Flickr often, but I’d hate to not have it around.
Agree. I only use Yahoo email aliases as spam catchers.
Will begin to use Apple mail aliases more for that.
I’ll never use Google for anything serious.
Not even for searching.
I also use My Yahoo! as an RSS news feed. LOL.
And, thinking about it, the Yahoo Sports iOS app.