Yahoo! now part of "Oath" - and they want to share all your information

[rogerzilla]

I only use them for webmail (a service that barely works) and I'm not happy about this.  My only remedy if I don't like this, according to their rather glib help page, is to delete my Yahoo account.  There is no option to avoid them hawking my personal details (presumably gleaned from e-mails) around 50 other companies.  GDPR is really going to have teeth, isn't it?

I know they're one of the most mismanaged companies in the world but this takes the biscuit.  It will be laborious, but I might just bother to change my e-mail address.  I suppose this applies to Flickr too (another service that barely works).

Can anyone suggest what the "oath" is?

[spesh]

The Oath name is meant to convey the parent company's commitment to the media business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Inc.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fucking%20oath

[orienteer]

I use my yahoo email when I don't want to reveal my main one, so they won't glean much from me 

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Keep getting a request to delve in but I have blocked it.  Yahoo stopped being my main address a long time ago.  I just use it for stuff which I think will generate a lot of spam.

[CAMRAMan]

Hmm, my Yahoo email account has been my only constant address of any kind since 1996, so I am reluctant to ditch it right away, but I'll gauge what happens post-divulgence.

[hellymedic]

My email is BT and therefore yahoo.
Does not sound good.

[hulver]

I only used flikr, which I've been meaning to dump for a while since I don't use it anymore. Both account now deleted (flikr and yahoo).

[T42]

"Should you prefer that Yahoo does not share any personal information with Oath and/or the Verizon family of companies, instructions on how to delete your Yahoo account can be found here."

As it happens, I an egroups email list I joined around 2001 is still active and has over 300,000 messages on it for them to mine. Yahoo took over egroups years ago.

I don't reckon F. Oath will be any more unscrupulous than Yahoo so I don't much care.

[rogerzilla]

"Should you prefer that Yahoo does not share any personal information with Oath and/or the Verizon family of companies, instructions on how to delete your Yahoo account can be found here."

Which is a pretty big "f--- you", really.  They could have provided an option not to share, but they didn't.  I suppose in any "free" service, You Are The Product.

[Mr Larrington]

Even if you have elected to fork over for Flickr Pro you still get this.  Bunch! Of! Shysters! Though! Less! So! Than! Photobucket!

[spesh]

It turns out that they have already shared (nearly) all of the information.

Verizon have admitted that every single Yahoo account that existed in August 2013 - 3 billion in all - was hacked.

Sitting down? An epic and historic data breach at Yahoo in August 2013 affected every single customer account that existed at the time, Yahoo parent company Verizon said on Tuesday.

That's three billion accounts -- including email, Tumblr, Fantasy and Flickr -- or three times as many as the company initially reported in 2016.

Names, email addresses and passwords, but not financial information, were breached, Yahoo said last year.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/technology/business/yahoo-breach-3-billion-accounts/index.html?sr=twtech100317yahoo-breach-3-billion-accounts0946PMVODtopLink&linkId=43073308