I know Yahoo! provides a free service, but it has gotten out of hand. First, they decided to convert all clubs to groups. What was supposed to take days ended up taking weeks and in some cases a month or more. When we finally did get our newly converted clubs online, we discovered they were now filled with advertisements. I’m not talking banner and pop-up ads here, I am talking ads that physically impede the reading of a post and break displayed links to other sites. To add insult to injury, Yahoo! decided we all wanted our marketing preferences updated, so we could be innundated with junk mail.<\/p>\n
Personally, I used to love Yahoo! I used their billpay function, joined clubs, and switched to their e-mail access. Now, it has been over a week since I have even been able to check my e-mail and it is impossible to contact them. They never list addresses, e-mail links or phone numbers to reach them at because they don’t want to be bothered with us. Yet, they expect us to allow them to make money off of us by selling our personal information to marketing firms and research groups. I did find a feedback form to use, but I have received no response to date.<\/p>\n
Free or not, it is time we joined together to end this gross misuse of power. We have the right to access our e-mail or they shouldn’t claim to provide the service. They do have a right to place ads on our groups because they host them for free, but not if the ads make our content unreadable or unaccessible. And most importantly we have a right to be able to contact them regarding our service, and in turn we have a reasonable expectation someone within their organization will respond. Until these improvements are met, I encourage you to end your affiliation with Yahoo! and its subsidiaries. Close your e-mail account, drop your membership from a group (or if you are an owner consider switching your hosting site), stop using Yahoo’s search engine, discontinue use of their added services, or at the very least search high and low for a way to contact them and tell them you’ve had enough. It’s time they listened to us for a change. One angry person won’t change Yahoo!, but all of us together will make a difference! We will be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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