The worst thing about Yahoo is they are constantly getting hacked and everyone's password getting stolen, and they won't do a damn thing about it. That bad reputation is fine with them.
The worst thing about Yahoo is they are constantly getting hacked and everyone's password getting stolen, and they won't do a damn thing about it. That bad reputation is fine with them.
I think the primary purpose of companies like Yahoo! at this point is to buy startups.
geetar wrote:
Yeah, the homepage is pure crraaaaappppp.
I do have an email address that Ive had for over a dozen years and if not for that I'd never use their site.
You can wade through the crap and find real news you just have to be careful because the headlines are slanted.
But, yes, it's crap.
I have an email there because I've had it since 2000 and it works fine for me.
As long as that hawt hottie Marissa Mayer is still there, they're still alive.
Their fantasy football system is pretty good. Our league has used it for ten years.
wtfunny wrote:
Shut it down, imo. I've been dealing, for the last 5 weeks, with a web problem, where contact forms aren't coming thru to my site if the user has entered a Yahoo email address (also AOL, and I think hotmail). It's a function of the DMARC policy, Yahoo's use of that, and how gmail (where my form is sent to) is handling that. There's actually no real resolution that actually works. F*** Yahoo.
Your incompetence is a reason to shut it down? You clearly made a web form that sends e-mails as being from the address the person enters, so google rejects them because it only accepts e-mails from Yahoo's servers to google's servers.
This is something you should have changed a decade ago.
I'm phasing out an old Yahoo email addy I've had since 2003, which gets a lot of spam that I can't seem to stop. However, a new Yahoo addy I've started hasn't gotten any spam in a year - zero. So I'm happy with it. I also use Yahoo's sports site because it's easier to wade through than ESPN and others.
But I have a gmail work email addy, too, and agree that gmail is better. I do like being able to group email by sender and subject with Yahoo, which I can't seem to do with gmail.
Yahoo had a massive lead in email. Virtually everyone in the US had a Yahoo mail account. Then GMail came along and Yahoo did not react.
By the time Yahoo caught up with GMail, pretty much everyone had already migrated to GMail.
Also worth noting that Yahoo had a jump start on the original iPhone in 2007 as the only email provider supporting push email. Again, they rested on their laurels.
I won't miss them.
Larry Liberal wrote:
Yahoo was once a big player -- probably only remember this if you're 40+ years old. I've had the same Yahoo e-mail address since probably 1998, but I no longer check it regularly. However, I still run across lots of people who use Yahoo mail despite its overall suckiness. The homepage is always just a bunch of TMZ style celebrity garbage.
Should it just be shut down, or is someone actually using it for something?
Definitely not dead; however, they appear to have conceded being the search king to google. Over the last couple of years, Yahoo passed on a few acquisitions which seemed overpriced at the time, but have ended up being worth the price. Yahoo finance/stocks and sports pages still have the best implementation.
I've had a Yahoo! email address since 1995. I never go to the homepage. I have a customized page which includes serious news, scores, socks and weather.
Yahoo socks are warmer than Google socks.
Shut down a company with US 29.12B market cap?
dont be ridiculous
I use my yahoo email as my spam mailbox. When I want to sign up for something online that I know is a one time thing that will generate a lot of junk mail I use the yahoo address.
I used to visit yahoo.com because the homepage provided a good way to get news stories. Then they redid the homepage and now it sucks and I never visit anymore.
jjjjjj wrote:
I think that their best bet was a stake in Ali Baba that became worth more than $10 billion. Their email system gets worse every time they update it, though if you look for it you can still find an older version that is not quite as bad, though I couldn't email myself something the other day for work.
Their idea of a TMZ style homepage with a lot of ads and junk news is not exactly doing it. I was also very much not in favor of their bringing in the gmail style of scanning your email to advertise to you to their email system.
$10b?? It was 39.7 when they decided to spin it off. Today it's in the mid 20's I believe and makes up basically the entire market value of Yahoo.
Yahoo fantasy and finance as people mentioned are still widely popular.
Except google accepts those emails from all other (virtually) servers .. including, google's servers .. if the form-fillers enters a gmail address, it comes thru. It's only a very few that don't. Yahoo seems to be the primary one.
I CAN (and have) changed the form so the 'Reply-To' path is the form-filler's enter email address and the 'From' path is the server hosting the site. Gmail then sends auto responders to my server, rather than the person's email address.
How do you resolve this?
It is the #5 most trafficked site in the world people:
I still use my Yahoo mailbox that I've had for 16 years. I use Yahoo finance and the portfolio functions to keep track of stocks. But I never use it for search. Once in awhile I read an article on there.