Adios, Yahoo
Sep. 27th, 2016 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimon66Yesterday, after YEARS of doing next to nothing with it, I deleted my Yahoo account.
Way back in early 2001, I discovered Yahoo Clubs and what fun they were.
Some months later, Yahoo changed then into Groups with email communication set-up. The reason? Easy ad placement aka money makers, all over the place. Then they got the bright idea that anything in a Group flagged "adult" and or Group designated as "adults only", said Group would immediately be put behind a wall so it wouldn't turn up in any search, "to protect minors from accidentally stumbling across it".
There was no reversing this at all period. Didn't matter if some pervert (complete with dick pic in their profile) or a porn bot had snuck in and posted something questionable, if it got reported before Mod removed it, BEHIND THE WALL WITH YE!!! Didn't matter if an "adults only" Group wasn't about anything sexual and completely legal (for example: smoking/cigars), BEHIND THE WALL WITH YE!!!
Of course, Yahoo didn't do much about perverts, white power freaks, bots, and other highly questionables that were running around all over the place.
By the way, supposedly some pedophiles had, for awhile, a successful Group going.
To be fair, highly questionables were present during Clubs. But, by my observation, switch to email communication and the whole wall jazz caused them to multiply.
Groups went downhill. Fall 2002, I came here to LJ.
Held on to Yahoo as an alternate email, which again I hardly used. Other, better alternate email places came along. Then the recent hack, seeing the months of spam in my box, few signs of life on the site - screw it, DELETE.
Way back in early 2001, I discovered Yahoo Clubs and what fun they were.
Some months later, Yahoo changed then into Groups with email communication set-up. The reason? Easy ad placement aka money makers, all over the place. Then they got the bright idea that anything in a Group flagged "adult" and or Group designated as "adults only", said Group would immediately be put behind a wall so it wouldn't turn up in any search, "to protect minors from accidentally stumbling across it".
There was no reversing this at all period. Didn't matter if some pervert (complete with dick pic in their profile) or a porn bot had snuck in and posted something questionable, if it got reported before Mod removed it, BEHIND THE WALL WITH YE!!! Didn't matter if an "adults only" Group wasn't about anything sexual and completely legal (for example: smoking/cigars), BEHIND THE WALL WITH YE!!!
Of course, Yahoo didn't do much about perverts, white power freaks, bots, and other highly questionables that were running around all over the place.
By the way, supposedly some pedophiles had, for awhile, a successful Group going.
To be fair, highly questionables were present during Clubs. But, by my observation, switch to email communication and the whole wall jazz caused them to multiply.
Groups went downhill. Fall 2002, I came here to LJ.
Held on to Yahoo as an alternate email, which again I hardly used. Other, better alternate email places came along. Then the recent hack, seeing the months of spam in my box, few signs of life on the site - screw it, DELETE.
