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Submitted by kebernet on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 13:11
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This is fucking unbelievable. On Dec 2 at 7:45 I got this email:
Your Yahoo! ID is: kebernet Your password for this account has recently been changed. You don't need to do anything, this message is simply a notification to protect the security of your account. Please note: your new password may take awhile to activate. If it doesn't work on your first try, please try it again later. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. For further help or to contact support, please see http://help.yahoo.com/help/edit/ *************************************************************** You can always change your password by doing the following: 1. Sign in to any Yahoo! service 2. Click on any "Account Info" link 3. Choose "Change Password" If you cannot find an "Account Info" link, you can sign in to My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) and you'll find it in the upper right corner. [172.201.39.27]
Now, that IP address is an AOL address in Glencoe, IL. Since I haven't used AOL or been to Illinois, obviously, someone has commandeered my acount. I got the the "password change" request page and can't get past it. Now, after going through several rounds with Yahoo! customer service, they won't reset my password, because I can't confirm the new profile information the fucktard who has my account has entered -- imagine that. If you have "kebernet" on your Flickr friends list, Yahoo! IM buddy list or anything else associated with Yahoo!, please remove it. While getting the email telling me I have been pwn3d is nice, if they aren't going to fucking fix the problem what is the point?

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RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 14:42.
Contact the Deparment of Consumer Affairs and possibly your local DA. If you ID is stolen the Secret Service will work with you.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 14:46.
If you pay with a credit card,paerhaps if you can give the credit card number to Yahoo, they will know it is you and change the password. If that doesn't work, contact the credit card company and let them know that you accout had been breached. They may contact Yahoo for you. Change the credit card number. If nothing else the account will be disabled for non payment eventually.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 15:14.
Yahoo legal department: Yahoo! Custodian of Records 701 First Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Any questions you may have regarding Yahoo!'s policy for responding to legal process or otherwise releasing user information should be directed to the Yahoo! Legal Department at the above address

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 15:21.
Also contact AOL.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by cooper (not verified) on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 01:57.
I actually did already email abuse@aol.net and got a referral address for security issues, and sent another email. I don't really expect AOL to follow up with it, though. I already went ahead and changed my CC numbers. Honestly the biggest complaint I have is that http://flickr.com/photos/kebernet is no longer mine. That and I actually do have a few people who use Yahoo IM with me, and now I have to change that user ID.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 06:28.
That is intellectual property. Taking your property with the intent of depriving you of the use of it is conversion. A civil wrong and criminal offense. The ISP may even be an accomplice because they have been instrumental in your continued inability to use your own property.

you're an idiot... a free

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 02:28.
you're an idiot... a free account online is NOT your property... in fact your name, ID, passwords, pictures and/or anything you put on there is THEIR property... read your terms and conditions... you stupid moron

I would probably have said it

Submitted by Charlie (not verified) on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 10:25.
I would probably have said it a bit gentler, but yeah, it's not your property, it's theirs. It's a FREE online account, not even compulsory. Get over it, pick another free online account (and do your due diligence, back your own stuff up once in a while).

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 11:03.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kebernet/favorites/ It has been modified today.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by Apurim-in-Houston (not verified) on Wed, 02/22/2006 - 16:47.
This thread dates to about the time my entire paid-for website (and my user-id namorado.geo) of ten years' duration ___Casa___do___Namorado___ http://geocities.com/namorado.geo was removed. Yahoo!, of course, makes it nearly impossible to communicate with them (there is no web page I can find with personal e-mails or any listing of real humans you can contact; their "Customer Care" page is an oxymoron). I tried for hours to wade through their multiple layers of touch-tone menus to get a "live" person who would answer two simple questions: 1. If there was a legal complaint against any of my hundred-odd pages of content, where is the page URL and what is the specific content alleged to be in violation of the T.o.S.? and, 2. rather than take down the entire website, would Yahoo! please re-enable my log-in i.d. so I could remove the complaint? I have repeatedly given them my name Al?n Al?n Apurim, e-mail apurim@dr.com, and telephone 713-264-7869, but have gotten (initially) only form letters telling me to read the (vague all-inclusive proprietary) Terms of Service page, or no answer at all. My Geocities page pre-dates by three years Yahoo!'s buying them out in 1999, and contained many useful topic pages (weather, computing, science, various countries' info, etc.) as well as my r?sum?. All gone, without expplanation. Suggestions or connections that would get me to people who would help me restore it would be appreciated.

hey

Submitted by yahoosuckstotalass (not verified) on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 10:34.
Heres what I like lol There messenger doesn't get a connection so you try and report it but you can only do it on the messenger that's already not working so of course it tells you that it cannot connect and the report was never sent. Try and email them though and you never get an answer. Ive had this happen a few times before. Finally 4 months later and it might work. Yahoo is pretty worthless and uncustomer friendly.

RE: Yahoo! sucks.

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 19:01.
Someone hiding behind a yahoo ID has been making threats to violently sexually abuse my grand daughter. Yahoo refuses to do anything about this. I contacted out local PD and they now suggest I make an appointment with our State\'s Attorney. Please someone explain to me why yahoo cannot stop child sex offenders from utilizing thier services to terrify people?

They probably work for Yahoo.

Submitted by yahoosuckstotalass (not verified) on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 10:30.
They probably work for Yahoo.

Yahoo Does SUCK!

Submitted by Christine (not verified) on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 13:00.
Yahoo! sucks and I wholeheartedly agree! I had an email account with them for over 10 years. Never once did I forget my password, seeing as I used it almost every day. Recently, Yahoo changed their log in process to require adding the domain into the log in ID box. For some reason, this caused a glitch in my account preventing me from logging in. I contact them, they ask for my personal info. So, I give them as much as I can remember, seeing as I entered it 10 years ago, and of course, gave them something incorrectly. After the back and forth with proving who I am since July '08, I STILL have not been allowed into my email account. HELLO? It was YAHOO's FAULT that I couldn't get in!! I didn't forget anything. You wouldn't believe the mindless banter, scripted responses and blatant disregard for what I was asking in my emails. They had once even asked for contact names and folder names to prove I am me, which I GAVE!! I am like you with being wronged...I will never use Yahoo again, not even as a search engine. I've never been so annoyed. I have high school friends that I only know their email, gone..photos of them and their kids, gone. Personal receipts and site registrations, all gone. I HATE YAHOO!!!!!

Privacy

Submitted by Phil (not verified) on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:19.
I agree 100%. Their new terms of service include the reuirement to enter personal information. If that information is incorrect they reserve the right to discontinue your account. Yahoo probably gets most of its revenue from advertising. Ive no problem with that but I do object to my personal details being used to help target me as a potential customer. I also object to those idiot advertisements that use sound or moving images to sell stuff. How much bandwidth do those things use up anyway? As soon as I can find a substitute for YH, Im out of here.

use google (gmail) yahoo

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 03:39.
use google (gmail) yahoo search stinks..you always get a limited results. You never get a ton of hits unlike google

I AGREE

Submitted by Yahoo sucks major fucking balls (not verified) on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 20:15.
Yahoo is full of overpaid dumb fucks that can't do shit for fruit snacks. They are mentally challenged both common sense, and logically figuring out how the fuck they could type without copy&pasting emails. Probably couldn't figure out that CAPTCHA math problem that I had to verify to post this comment.

Yahoo has the worst policies ever

Submitted by Dex (not verified) on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 00:27.
Yahoo has probably the worst privacy policy ever, yahoo Toolbar is even worse, and worse yet they try to trick you into installing it every chance they get. Here's a short write-up that describes why I hate yahoo: http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008/12/03/geek-review-get-web-ema...

yeah

Submitted by Dex (not verified) on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 00:29.
Don't forget the Java installation, they try to trick you there too: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/privacy-issue-rant-transmit-web...

Yahoo stupid bunch of retards

Submitted by Jesus Christ (not verified) on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 01:56.
I HATE HATE HATE YAHOO! I HAVE MADE 3 ACCOUNTS WITH THESE ASSHOLES AND EVERY TIME I GOT MY ID CORRECT AND MY PASSWORD CORRECT BUT NO THESE BULLSHITERS CAN'T BE ARSED TO SIGN ME IN!

sooooo agreeee

Submitted by yahoosuckstotalass (not verified) on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 10:18.
Yahoo is designed for hackers to be able to just go right in and into any ones computer. Chats is the most dangerous chat I have ever seen. E-mail is designed to allow spam and trogenware through with out question. Reason for this is so they can work with microsoft to sell crap hole firewalls that really are no good for anything except yahoos attacks, and there not even that great against that. But if you use there walls on any other powered sites they let everything in. There tool bar is atrocious for putting in spyware and malware. If I use there tool bar my scanners pick up so many problems that its amazing they all come out at times. I only use Google tool bars now, I have had little to no problems using them. I use Comodo firewall to surf and online armor with a huge random password for chats, But I no longer use yahoo chats and only use the e-mail for warnings of my other site activities. I have had no problems sense I made my transitions. Yahoo sucks. I have found now that they are talking about rewarded there chat hackers by hiring them on with a free for all instead of throwing them in jail where they belong. Do yourself a favor and AVOID YAHOO as much as you can.

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