Yahoogroups decided that they don't care about your privacy

SwissSmiss

Chief Talker
PF Member
As part of making recent changes to Yahoo, they also
reset most everyone's preferances to "yes" for their
marketing literature. This is especially important to you
if they have your correct phone number and address for
snail mailings.

Go to your Account Information screen (for each and every
ID you have) and about mid screen you will see "Edit Your
Marketing Preferences" link. Click on it and set them back
to the way you want them, otherwise get ready for *LOTS* of
advertising spam type emails from Yahoo's advertisers. Note
also at the bottom, that you will be marked YES for 'By US
Mail' and 'By Phone' as well.

Just clicking "save these changes" on the preferances page
should work,
but notice also on the page which comes up next, (your
"review my account
information" page) there is a "Finished" button in the
upper right
corner, hit it too.

It's been suggested you replace your information with
this (Their information)

Mr/s. Stop Spamming Me
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-530-5062
 
Dumb people. That should be illegal. Unfortunatly I cant remember half the accounts I have signed up for there so I guess Im screwed.
 
man they are just as bad as ebay!!! Well I gave them a bogus zip code upgrade and took off my one good email account info and the other is not verified. I will no longer use them anyway. :razz:
 
Yeah I took care of this the moment I heard, I'm not the least bit surprised...

<sigh>
 
the best part of that whole story comes at the end when it lists yahoo's stock at $18.47. I remember when it was at 400 :lol:
 
...this is the reason why I never sign up with my real details, unless it's an absolute necessity (like Ebay or something)...
 
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