tagold

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   by tagold 13y ago

   Price. That's in market based economy, of cause.
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   by tagold 13y ago

   Even leaving all negative conservatives of this decision aside for now, it hardly does solves anything. If thomasted110 is the best what's available for now at yahoo, there will be, simplifying a bit, 109 another unhappy users (thomast
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   by tagold 13y ago

   Thought about it, but doesn't sounds quite right too: Yahoo didn't use these identities, it provided them to the users. Anyway I don't want to be pedantic here, just as long as it was clear what I tried to say, and nobody mis
4. 4.▲
   by tagold 13y ago

   They are not discontinuing their product line or even canceling service for some of its customers. What they do is effectively transferring online identities they granted from less deserving, from their perspective, users to more deserving
5. 5.▲
   by tagold 13y ago

   This is a way worse then just disabling unused old accounts and, say, deleting emails stored there. Yahoo is going to "resell"(1) these accounts. This will create all kind of privacy problems, and potential for abuse: gaining acc
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   by tagold 13y ago

   What if the person doesn't have access to the internet for a year?