Open Letter to Yahoo Mail

[scribblemyname]

Dear Yahoo,

You have never listened to any feedback I've ever sent you; you have never respected my privacy; and you  have never cared, so frankly, I don't expect you will now. You used to have one redeeming quality: you put out the one decent email program left.

Gone, gone, gone. As of today gone.

Not only am I required to downgrade to the BROKEN version of Mail that I kept telling you was broken and I wouldn't upgrade to until you fixed certain very nasty bugs, but with it, I am now required to let you rifle through all my mail and read it and use it to target ads to me that I will never click on. Unless there was a way to export my entire decade's worth of mail, which of course, there isn't.

Not only am I required to let you read my mail to make ads, you have moved the ads to the side so that I am required to never be able to move a blinking ad out of my line of view.

Not only am I required to downgrade to your lousy idea of an upgrade, but it's because you aren't supporting Classic anymore. Guess what? I didn't need support. It worked, unlike this new mail that only works if I have Messenger, chat, and photo slideshows active, which I hate and will never, ever, ever, ever use except to delete the spam messages you force me to have to look at.

Not only am I required to downgrade to the new Yahoo! Mail, but I'm required to use the Full Version I don't want because the Basic is so broken you can't even click "Previous Email."

You now have no redeeming qualities. And I still can't export all that mail that I need to keep handy since I used my email as a hub of operations before and now don't know how I'm going to hub without it.

No love,

the scribbler

P.S. Whoever invented infinite scrolling should experience ten levels of purgatory for making it cryworthy to try and clean up 14,000 emails in an attempt to actually see the number of emails in my inbox in the header.

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Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I used to have a paid Yahoo! mail account. The only reason I paid for it was so that I could download messages into Outlook so I didn't need to use their website to read my mail. Once gmail allowed that as a free service, I decided to cancel the paid version of Yahoo! mail.

The instructions on how to cancel a paid account led to a broken page, so I had to call customer support to cancel. Of course, they tried to talk me out of it.

Now my Yahoo! mail account is little more than an aggregator of garbage from people I don't care about. Their spam filtering has improved a little bit, but I don't like the interface at all, so I never check it. The only reason I still have an account there is because I use their instant messenger as a standalone. That's been going downhill for the past four or five years, although I still far prefer it to any other IM program. I imagine they'll do away with it eventually, and then I won't have any more need for Yahoo services. It will make me happy when that day comes.