Yahoo! axes! websites! you've! never! heard! of! and! lays! off! staff! Yahoo! has eliminated seven of its digital publications as the sputtering web giant continues to cut costs. The Purple Palace confirmed on Wednesday that it was eliminating the Yahoo! Food, Health, Parenting, Makers, Travel, Auto, and Real Estate cyber-magazines. With the cuts comes the loss of a number of jobs including, …
It's getting frickin hard to get a free email account without supplying phone # (and soon cc and ssn). And for what - crap like junkmail on yahoo?. Oh well, life goes on and no need to check email. There's no way I'd provide some Internet site with my real creds - these are reserved for real businesses (and even then not given up easily).
Posting anon here as I'm sure I'll get flamed to oblivion.
Providing an email service costs money (servers, infrastructure, bandwidth , associated people costs) and that cost has to be covered somehow. It really gets my goat when people start expecting stuff totally for free.
If you really need a spam bucket, do what I do.
- Buy your own domain, get a reasonably-priced hosting package
- Set up your own email for that server, e.g. me@mydomain.co.uk
- Any time you need to sign up to something, use a new address, e.g. elreg@mydomain.co.uk
- Configure the email server to redirect all inbound mail to that address to /dev/null
(and stop whinging that people won't just give you stuff for free, with no benefit to themselves, you tight-arsed so-and-so)
"Configure the email server to redirect all inbound mail to that address to /dev/null"
Then why create the account in the first place? If you're just throwing the account away like that, then you could just as well a fake address to begin with.
I do something similar, except I use the maildir format and just drop it into a directory. I dropped a cheap 1 TB disk onto my mail server (Actually an old disk from when I upgraded my NAS), so I can store my junk mail for many many years. There might be something useful in there, or at the very least, useful data to train my spam filters.
I have never heard of any of these Yahoo publications either, I also cannot for the life me figure out why Yahoo would employ these people to write what I'm going to assume are clickbait articles.
No-one else does, they are all contractors, paid by the word which is nice when you don't want to buy their words anymore.
"I would have hinted towards one LESS Marissa"
We need a lot less of her type of management skills, male or female.
Odd thing, the warning sign is always right there when they make a statement when taking the position.
Anyone that comes into a job, announcing all the solutions to all the company's woes before they've even bothered with such banalities as taking interviews with staff, consulting department heads, and taking a good hard look at the company's ledgers, should be immediately barred from the premises and terminated as incurably stupid.
The only plausible future is one in which Yahoo! no longer exists.
Perhaps oddly I hope you are wrong; I am a member of several Yahoo Groups and I (and many others) would miss them if they ceased to exist, given that we haven't found another "forum supplier" that provides the same functionality. Being realistic someone might realise that "Groups" are (probably) a cost centre and not a profit centre in which case their loss might be imminent.
Not being a Yahoo expert can anyone tell me if Yahoo has any revenue stream other than advertising income? I count myself as something of an expert at ignoring advertisements completely, other than those very annoying ones that appear right in the middle of something you are reading and which refuse to go away until sometime later.
It would be interesting* to be wearing a sphygmomanometer when one of those materialises...
*or terrifying...
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