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Laura ([personal profile] kyrielle) wrote2002-03-30 09:37 am
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For those who haven't already seen it....

Yahoo! accounts have had a whole set of marketing options, including use of your home address and phone number if they have it.

All the options default to YES.

To turn it off, go to http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount and make the changes you want. (You may need to log in.)

If that doesn't work, information on other ways to access it is already in this post here: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=khaosworks&itemid=72459
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[identity profile] etherpunk.livejournal.com 2002-03-30 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is EXACTLY the reason I'm switching from using Yahoo as my primary email account.

Blech.

ACK!

[identity profile] ladywraith.livejournal.com 2002-03-31 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Damn! Thanks, kyrielle! I had no idea! (Just switched it all to "no" a moment ago...)
kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)

Re: ACK!

[personal profile] kyrielle 2002-03-31 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't that just charming? They did send a warning email to anyone who had a Yahoo! mail account that they were doing this, and said it would be 60 days before they used the new settings, but....

I also removed my address & phone number from my account. This was very hard; they won't let you save without filling in either home or work address, and either home or work phone number! Why the heck should they need that information? Ugh.

Re: ACK!

[identity profile] ladywraith.livejournal.com 2002-03-31 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I never received any notification, so I had no idea about it.

As for removing that info, did you just stick in bogus info?
kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)

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[personal profile] kyrielle 2002-03-31 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Only way I could think of to do it, and I don't trust them with the real info, now.

Re: ACK!

[identity profile] ladywraith.livejournal.com 2002-04-02 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Mind if I pass this along to my yahoo group subscribers?
kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)

Re: ACK!

[personal profile] kyrielle 2002-04-02 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all!
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