I was both annoyed and amused by their streaming headlines at me this morning that Obama cleaned Mitt’s clock in that debate.
A Conservative search engine would CLEAN UP in the marketplace.
Yes Yahoo is way too partisan to be considered fair or balanced. Yahoo management needs some schooling in fairness, not just freedom of speech. Maybe they will do a series on the US Constitution.
I use Yahoo email and I never go to or see their home page to get to my email account. When you are on your inbox page just bookmark it and use that link to get to your email inbox.
I got Yahoo mail about 10 years ago and used it as a throw-away account for the places that required an email address, but which I didn’t need to track. As far as I know it’s still open but I haven’t been there in a few years. Gmail for now but considering Rush’s recommendation of the Reagan email...
Laz, there is no new thing under the sun!
This has been going on for 15 years.
I went to reagan.com and got my email address. I had 2 google accounts and am keeping one for donations, political stuff, etc. The other is entirely personal and some business that do NOT send ads or share your info. This has been a nice change. It always bothered me that before opening emails you could already tell the content of the email by the ads google posted above the email. Snooping big time! I know I can send any comment I want and it not be monitored.
It’s as if Yahoo, in some last ditch effort to save themselves from destruction, have turned hard left. If you look at any of the news articles, there is about a 90% left wing bias.
I need to find something to replace them with. I mostly use Yahoo for their finance information. They really excel in that area, and have typically had the most organized information, and best charting. I also use Yahoo for a personal email account, and as a source for keeping up with the day’s headlines.
Replacement suggestions appreciated.
I would suggest a somewhat roundabout process for getting your new email, that offers a lot better security.
Typically, it is hard to get a good email unless you provide them personal information, as well as another email address. This can be used to “track you back”.
So the first step is getting a small, expendable email, hopefully from an international free email provider. Then use fake information across the board to create your quality email account in a pretty safe manner.
1) Free international emails.
http://www.fepg.net/foreign.html
If these require an email address themselves, create a “disposable”, 10-minute email:
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
2) Now that you have an international email, you can choose a quality account. I like Lycos.com as a quality account, as it is a major player, but based in India.
But even then, you will need fake personal information to subscribe. For that I would use the Fake Name (and personal information) Generator:
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
3) For passwords, *always* use a password generator, and these days, it is a very good idea to use at least 15 characters, so you should keep a written password list. PCTools has a high quality generator up to 64 characters.
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
4) Keep garbage out of your email by using either 10 minute mail or
5) For pure entertainment, you might create a dummy email address to track those who misuse your information. The way to do this is to use different identities on different sites, fill in forms, etc., being careful to annotate what fake identity you used where. When the spam rolls in to your dummy email address, addressed to a particular fake name, you get to see sold your “personal” information, and to who.
This is also fun to do with magazine subscriptions, store discount cards, and other things like that.
All the big free email providers are ultra-libs. But why not
use their services for free in such a way they can’t make money off of you via ads? Namely, use an email client like Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Outlook, etc. with POP3 or IMAP access to the email server. No ads, faster, easier, more powerful, more control, and more secure than web-based email.
I’d recommend using Thunderbird, IMAP, and gmail.
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I quit using them a long time ago. I have four different Yahoo email addresses and each and everyone of them log into a different version.
I only use one of them when registering on stupid websites just to comment to lib idiots.
Never check them.