Yahoo MAIL's Sorry State

I am one of those sorry saps who opened a Yahoo! MAIL account long before the new millennium. I built up hundreds, if not thousands of contacts through years of business and personal use, and grew my Yahoo accounts to a number of email addresses over the years.

First, Yahoo sent me an email that many of their accounts were hacked, including  mine. I would need to change my password. I already knew something was wrong after dozens of irate individuals notified me that spam email with a malicious code link was sent from my email address at Yahoo. Last year when Yahoo service was disrupted for several weeks and the company did not inform users of the status of their repairs (if any,) it became clear that I had to find more reliable options for email. Many couldn't access email for up to a month.

From annoying ads with objectionable material to removing the functional buttons for composing and sending emails, Yahoo under the direction of Google star, Marissa Mayer, has failed miserably on many accounts.  I've kept my Yahoo! MAIL accounts more as a barometer of how the company is functioning and frankly, something is seriously wrong with their mail system.

I routinely  (at least three to four times a week) see errors when trying access email, then visit a site called "Is it Down Right Now- Yahoo"  where thousands of people are mad at Yahoo and vent over service issues. Friends and family complain about their service and I advise them to open email accounts elsewhere. There are many free services out there and the new, private STARTMAIL.COM pay service with encrypted servers offshore and no advertising, $60/year approx.

So what's up with Yahoo's failing email product? Some theorize the failure is by design to dump customers using free services. Others say it's not Yahoo's priority as the company focuses on global acquisitions and shareholder profits.

An October 2014 article by Forbes states, "Here Is Why Yahoo Is Now A Most Enticing Stock To Buy." Marrisa Mayer's job is to  make money for investors. Yahoo MAIL is dispensable and could easily shut down or change its model, dumping the free mail users. They're already dumping mail users in a slow burn, anyway.

UPDATE: When Verizon entered negotiations to acquire Yahoo's major assets in the Fall 2016 it was announced that yet, another breach of data -- the largest in history of any company -- had occurred at Yahoo, unbeknownst to users whose passwords and private information had been compromised several years earlier!

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