Earl Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Alas, I should've closed this account long ago! Now it seems that I cannot get to my email without accepting the new Oath agreement. Is there a way I can bypass this to get to my email and address book and close this account without accepting Oath's "privacy" agreement whereby they store all incoming and outgoing mail, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 In a word... no. However, some years back, a customer had some luck with this number: 1-800-318-0612 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattoleriver Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Did you try clicking on "I'll do it later"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajijiccharlie Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 24 minutes ago, mattoleriver said: Did you try clicking on "I'll do it later"? This function, probably light blue lettering, gets around a lot of annoying Yahoo quirks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Posted April 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 I figured it out. Thank you all anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 I ended up reading the majority of what there was there to read and figured what the heck, I am already on Facebook so I might as well say I agree to let them spy on me or what ever it is they want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudgirl Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 When I got that screen for the first time yesterday, I didn't agree or do anything else but hit the back browser. It took me back to my sign-in page with a message on it saying "Oops, your session expired" or something like that. So I signed in again and it went straight to my email without that Oath agreement coming up. Same routine again today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 I did something similar when the "oath" popped up. Just went in to my bookmarks and clicked on another site... went there and went back to Yahoo and had no trouble getting to my mail.. and no trouble since. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Berca Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 Hasn't happened to me yet but appreciate the "heads up" and knowing I have options when it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusMactavish Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 9 minutes ago, Al Berca said: Hasn't happened to me yet... Simply log off and then log back in. You will see the agreement request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Berca Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 Still not getting it. I use the Yahoo Mail app. Wonder if that makes any difference? Not really a big deal, but thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bournemouth Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 It turned up on one of my Yahoo groups pages today - I opted for I'll do this later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkWebles Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 I'm surprised that anyone would believe that Yahoo (and every other free service on the internet) doesn't already store their email (and every other surfing behaviour) and harvest from it what they want. Naive to think otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 I cannot stress how poor the security is on Yahoo's email servers. Does no one recall that two and a half billion emails have been data-mined from Yahoo by hackers over the last four years? Yahoo admitted this publicly earlier this year. Until then, they blamed you, the user, for being too stupid to properly protect your account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poptarte_22@yahoo.com Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 On 4/14/2018 at 2:27 PM, ComputerGuy said: I cannot stress how poor the security is on Yahoo's email servers. Does no one recall that two and a half billion emails have been data-mined from Yahoo by hackers over the last four years? Yahoo admitted this publicly earlier this year. Until then, they blamed you, the user, for being too stupid to properly protect your account. I just opened yahoo to check...it shows me all my facebook messages etc ??? ...but I never use it anymore. Saw this 'oath' thing...hit 'do it later'....got in ok. Now what? I don't know........... Hope I can just avoid their stuff..............forever maybe?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 To forever close your Yahoo account (with a 40-day grace period, click here: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2044.html I wouldn't be surprised if they try to get you to sign the new Oath agreement (the company now running Yahoo for AOL). In some cases, Yahoo won't actually remove everything for up to 180 days, but that depends largely on the country you signed up from. Data connected to a Yahoo Finance Premium account might be kept for three calendar years. And I cannot find anything that says, definitively, ALL your information will be removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgreenbury Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 I wanted to review my account and copy/remove some files, then decide if I'm going to close it. I opted to "do this later" but now the agreement page keeps coming up and I can't access anything, even when I hit "I agree." Is there a link to query this? I use that account every day and there will still be some things I need to see until I can advise everyone to reach me elsewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frijoles Posted April 19, 2018 Report Share Posted April 19, 2018 So, what is a good email provider to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted April 20, 2018 Report Share Posted April 20, 2018 There are many. Search Google for "most popular secure email sites" or something similar. Protonmail is one. GMX Webmail. You have to try them all and see what attracts you in terms of design and usage, as well as security. GMail is one of the best, but is not dedicated solely to security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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