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Yahoo Groups - “opt in” marketing settings set to “Yes” without customer notice, resulting in large increases of spam. Apparently, when Yahoo was “down” recently, in addition to whatever else they did, they also reset everyone's marketing preferences back to “Yes”. These settings not only apply to Spam, but also to junk snail mail and phone solicitation as well. Below are the instructions on how to reset yours back to your original settings. Here's what you need to do:
- Get to the “Account Info” page
(goto any Yahoo Groups page, “Account Info” is in the upper right)
[It will usually ask to verify your password] - When your Yahoo ID card comes up, click on “Edit your Marketing Preferences”
- Change all those Yes's back to No's! or whatever they were before.
- Click Save Changes
- Reload the page to verify the updates were made.
You might also consider using Yahoo's customer response option (on the
privacy settings page) to email Yahoo a message protesting the “opt-in”
default assumption. Switching subscribers to “opt-in” when prior indications
are a preference for “opt-out” is considered unethical by the various direct
marketing trade organizations…
10 Comments
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 4:25pm
Is is also on non Yahoo Groups accounts. To get there other then yahoo groups you go to the bottom of the main yahoo.com page, and click the newly updated Privacy Policy link. Then you can continue on from step 2.
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 5:39pm
If you receive your Yahoo mail through POP3 the service ends on April 24th..unless you change your marketing settings to “no”…
then it ends immediately
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 7:31pm
And as of April 24th my 5 year run with Yahcrap, including my e-mail account, Geocities page and any other thing associated with them will also end. Their service and support has sucked for the last year anyways. The same people still work there so paying them any kind of money would be just paying them for shitty programming and service - something Microsoft still offers for free on MSN (for now).
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 7:52pm
Fcuk yahoo! they always sucked anyway. use google and hotmail(as much as i hate msn, they have better e-mail then yahoo anyway)
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 7:52pm
Fcuk yahoo! they always sucked anyway. use google and hotmail(as much as i hate msn, they have better e-mail then yahoo anyway)
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 12:10am
Yahoo can suck it. they also had my address and phone number opted in. thanks yahoo can I remove the broom stick now?
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 10:31pm
Thanks for the heads up on Yahoo. Between what I get from AOL AND Yahoo, that shit gets pretty deep.
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 1:35pm
Aick! I had my whole life in Yahoo and now I am attempting to ween myself from it…I sent them an email and I suggest other Yahoo!s do so as well…even if you are cancelling service, like me - dont do it quietly -.
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 11:30pm
For all of you that thought I was crazy to be worried that Chris might do away with the free subscriptions, why don't you support your Yahoo!? Aren't these guys just trying to make a living?
There is an interesting blog going at blogger.com that is chronicaling the loss of the 'free' internet. Your life is changing.
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2002
at 9:32pm
This link you should take you right to that page.
http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount
If you are not logged in already, you will have to do so.