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   Well it sure ain't easy

   

   Hasher J. Brown, May 13th, 2002 @ 4:28am

   
   

   I had two yahoo accounts and removed them both then I started to get spam. It took me forever to find the silly account deletion page. I wonder how many people just stopped using the service and never bothered to delete the account.

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   May understate true effects

   

   D Henkel-Wallace, May 13th, 2002 @ 6:21am

   
   

   I didn't realise I could nuke the account, so just changed all the info to be irrelevant (including mail address) and opted out of everything. Then deleted all the yahoo cookies in my browser.
   
   Anyway, people who've given out their yahoo address can't just cancel the account -- others have that address.
   
   The real question is: are people signing up as quickly as they were before?

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   Apathy

   

   alternatives(), May 13th, 2002 @ 7:08am

   
   

   Corporate America knows what the politations have known for a long time.
   
   Most people don't care enough to DO anything.
   
   Look at the DMCA and the 'ohhh its EVIL' as stated by the tech crowd. (/. is a hotbed of these loud do-nothing whiners) Yet, these same techies who call the DMCA 'evil' are willing to hand over $$$ to the people who paid for the DMCA, and go see 'spider-man' or buy Sony hardware. Guess its not evil enough to stop lining the pockets of the companies who brought the DMCA into existance, and are working to make sure things like the SSSCA/CBTPA come into existance.
   
   Kind of like the SUV's with 'save the environment' stickers.

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   Missing the mark

   

   todd, May 13th, 2002 @ 10:26am

   
   

   Yahoo is missing the mark (obviously) -- I didn't cancel my account in protest (something that people do with, say, newspaper subscriptions), but I instead opted out of everything. If that isn't a signal to them, they are nuts. Furthermore, I sent detailed instructions on how to do the same to 20+ family members and friends. Not one of us cancelled our accounts, but we sure like Yahoo a little less.

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   What Yahoo! did was fine ...

   

   Patrick Grote, May 14th, 2002 @ 8:38am

   
   

   Yahoo! let folks know what was going on and most, almost all, people could care less.
   
   Yahoo! And I meant that as a pun.
   
   The internet is not a free service and someone has to pay. If using Yahoo!, which is a great service, means I have to look at ads and put up with marketing spam, then so be it. I get much more value out of it than that.
   
   What kills me is when people complain about their privacy on the internet being trampled. You're on the internet, folks. It's a public network and you don't have privacy. The "cost" of using it is losing some of that. If you don't like it don't use it.

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   Re: What Yahoo! did was fine ...

   

   Z, Jul 29th, 2002 @ 8:12pm

   
   

   You're obviously not that much of an internet person.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 14th, 2002 @ 10:53am

   
   

   so where the fuck is the yahoo cancel account page
   

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   Re: Well it sure ain't easy

   

   Kristy, Jun 26th, 2003 @ 12:54pm

   
   

   where did you ever find the account deletion page?
   

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   FUCK HEADS YAHOO

   

   april lee, Oct 4th, 2007 @ 12:02pm

   
   

   YAHOO OFFICIALLY IS THE WORST SITE POSSIBLE. first the beautiful discussion boards are gone, they were fun and entertaining but nooooooo they had to censor and couldnt handle people talking. furthermore last week they cancelled my 360 blog with no explanation no NOTHING. THESE PEOPLE ARE DICK HEADS AND STUPID AT YAHOO. SERVICE SHOULD NOT WORK LIKE THIS. i removed them from my tool bar. these people are pure evil since blogs take time to develop, that is all i got to say DICKHEADS who ever is sitting on the yahoo committee.
   
   so want to cancel your account put a couple of antiwar items in it, DICKHEADS WILL CANCEL IN NO TIME

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