Reply to post: Re: Yahoo! Did! it! All! Wrong!

GDPRmageddon: They think it's all over! Protip, it has only just begun

Cpt Blue Bear

Re: Yahoo! Did! it! All! Wrong!

"Not having signed into my Yahoo account in some months I thought on seeing the comments here I'd better go have a look. All the ad stuff was off by default with both per site opt-in toggles and global opt-in toggle.

I wonder why I'm seeing something different to you?"

Call me cynical but maybe management backtracked on the threat to close accounts when they saw how many hadn't responded at all.

The success of services like this are judged by the number of accounts (as a proxy for the number of users). Would you want to be the Yahoo exec responsible for tanking what remains of the share price by owning up that half your "users" aren't really? Its (probably) just as easy to bulk reset privacy options as to batch delete accounts...

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon