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Yahoo Mail

by Apr 13, 2018 3:11PM PDT

When I signed on to my yahoo email today I got the following message:
entitled " New Privacy and terms" Yahoo is now part of Oath the media company behind today's top news, sports and entertainment sites and apps. By choosing "I accept below you agree to Oath's new terms of service and private policy. The pop up goes to show how data is collected.

The question is this for real or is this some type of scam?

Thank you.

Jerry

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Clarification Request
Now in Yahoo new email tab opens when I reply to a message
by SimonDundas Jan 30, 2019 10:22AM PST

When i reply to an email a new tab open that you edit in addition to the original email. So when you've sent your reply there is still the original email open. This never used to happen and means you have to spend extra time closing the original emails. If I've answered a lot of emails I then need to close the original emails and often have to check their content incase it's an email in draft and not sent! I've checked the options and this behaviour can't be switched off.

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Nope. Just the changes.
by Forum moderator Apr 13, 2018 4:02PM PDT
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Yahoo Mail
by overstein Apr 14, 2018 5:31PM PDT

Thank you for your quick response.


Jerry

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I have accepted the privacy
by Apr 28, 2018 10:17AM PDT

I have accepted the Privacy and Terms at least 20 times now. I am overseas, so I did it both with and without a VPN. I have cleared the cache in Chrome and I have also used Firefox. Nothing works. I could be that yahoo does not like my having a US account but accepting overseas, despite the VPN.

It is a pain but that is not my major concern. Obviously Yahoo or Oath or some computer is not acknowledging this acceptance. So... is there an expiration date on accepting these privacy terms? Can I just keep doing this forever?

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