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...