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Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No'
rawg writes "Looks like Yahoo is resetting their 'Marketing Preferences' again. In an email I received from Yahoo today it states, 'Starting January 1, 2004, Yahoo! will begin to send you messages, via email or postal mail, about our own products and services. You can control the types of messages you receive by visiting your Marketing Preferences at any time'. It also states, 'And, as always, you can delete your Yahoo! account altogether at any time, for any reason, by going to the deletion page.' I deleted my Yahoo account a month ago. I guess they are lying, because I'm still getting their SPAM."
I mind the paper. Even though it's easy enough to throw it in the recycle bin and wash my guilty conscience of it, I'd still feel better if it were never created in the first place.
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
Before this change you could specify if you wanted them to email you. Now you can do control how (and if) Yahoo contacts you on specific issues. From their point of view they are probably hoping that people will leave one or two things on instead of turning it all off. I doubt it will work though
The policy of the United States is worse than bad---it is insane. -- Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policy(1959)
I have enough crapmail I receive at my house, I don't need more. When I visited the marketing preferences page and told them no for a second time, this is what I was returned
Thank you, your changes have been saved. Please allow approximately 5 days for this change to take effect.
Why would it take 5 days to remove me from a friggin mailing list? A simple delete query should remove me from the database immediately.
alias dir='rm -rf
For free, you get:
All of this for 0 USD a month, and now they're suggesting that they may "clear" your nospam preferences, unless you turn it back on again.
How is this evil? I've had a Yahoo profile since 1997, its been invaluable. Heck, I feel guilty not paying them a dime!
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
It's all bullshit. They only have to sell your name once in order to start recieving spam and junk. Note to the clue impaired: They "sell" your name when you create the account, before you say no to spam and junk.
If you don't agree to the terms of service, then you shouldn't be using the service.
Why the fuck is everybody always scheming to get a free ride?
evil adrian
I agree with you. Even though it takes more effort to throw out a credit card offer than delete an email, the fact that they had to pay around $0.30 to send it in paper and bulk mailing costs makes me not mind. Bulk email, which approaches free, has entirely different economics which makes it much more insidious by my perspective.
However, I don't feel the same about telephone solicitations. They've always outraged me, even though there is a cost involved. Before DNC was implemented, I encouraged everyone to keep phone solicitors on the line as long as possible without purchasing anything. I hoped that the ratio of per call cost to hit rate could be increased sufficiently to make the process no longer worthwhile. Others advocated this also, but it never seemed to catch on.
Or you can just ignore it, move on with your life and don't complain about something that is free.