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By Steve Ragan Jan 17, 2007, 19:05 GMT
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Its true.
even me got it.. And i needed to uninstall all yahhoo things to get rid of it..
now i only have yahoo msngr.. :)
Are you serious? What kind of folks read this stuff? Reading half the comments on this article gives me a headache. Wow, and to think I believed in evolution.
No, Yahoo! is not run by 'unethical' people - it's just another corporation, with profits before everything else. And when you use a piece of software you agree to certain terms and conditions. Yahoo! would be unethical if these terms and conditions were not made explicit, or if you could not opt out of them (which you can during install). Every company resorts to it - hell, my Dell notebook came with a bunch of Google stuff and Windows itself comes with all kinds of rubbish.
What were people expecting, a free ride? Gee.
I quit Yahoo! long time ago when their spam blockers never realy worked and every time you would download something from the that terrible toolbar just kept poping back on explorer. I had to unistall about 3 times before it worked.
They should consider Y! same as adware or spyware because of their useless crap. I'm even scared to go on Flikr on any other Yahoo! branded sites because of this.
Anyway after the helped the chinese goverment jail or execute regular people browsing on sites that were banned by the chinese authorities i crossed Y! of my list sites to visit.
Yes Yahoo used to be my favorite portal. I will not download anything from them.
It's all spyware adware and I hate this stuff. It does not install clean and it does not uninstall clean. Thats just plain evil.
One of the main reasons why I have always used Cerulean Studios Trillian - or GAIM (on Linux Platform)! None of the usual spyware/trojans get installed - and for a subset of features, i get the complete IM experience - the safe way!
Yahoos.
Yahoo desktop is still the best desktop-program there is
The sad demise of Yahoo, once the predominate messenger and chat engine, as well as one of the most popular home pages and until recently my favorite news source, is due (I think) to the following:
1.Installing the items you uncheck, and embedding the software so deeply that you have to dig through the operating system in order to fix it.
2.The annoying constant reminders of unused features when using YIM
3.The chat rooms' overpopulation with porn bots
4.Removal of the discussion feature in Yahoo News.
5.Lack of any real help function
6.Lack of security concerning credit card numbers, etc. in Yahoo Wallet.
7.Requiring the use of Yahoo Wallet to purchase services, etc.
It's true sad. Yahoo used to be the number one destination at my house.
My wife, who is a dedicated Yahoo user and her home page set to Yahoo, they kept prompting her to upgrade her Explorer. The next thing you know they have hijacked her browser. While I am a little bit better, even I couldn't change the settings.
Solution: I installed Firefox for her.
What's wrong with Yahoo? If they can't fight with Google in search, they want to be come a spyware/malware company.
I had this happen over the weekend. I wrote yahoo about it and this is the response I received:
'We understand that you would like to reset your homepage and empathize
with the present situation.
We sincerely apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused. We
have discovered an issue with the Yahoo! Messenger Auto-updater which
was not enabling the custom installation option when installing through
the Auto-updater. When we were made aware of this issue, we immediately
stopped the auto-update feature to further investigate these reports as
well as to correct the issue. Our engineering team has corrected the
issue to ensure that with future updates, you are prompted before any
additional software or application changes are made during the upgrade
of Yahoo! Messenger.
Again, we do apologize for the changes that had been made as it was not
our intention to make modifications without your prior consent.
. . .
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - better than ever!'
Even after uninstall (through 'add/delete programs' cause yahoo! doesn't offer an uninstall feature) I am still able to access some sites (www.nba.com) and almost all sites are running ridiculously slow on my broadbank connection.
If anyone can lead me to some instructions for making sure I got rid of all the yahoo crap I sure would appreciate it.
Mike
I had the same issue... Yahoo installed a search bar and made itself comfy on my internet explorer... (I guess it must have stated something like this in its agreement)..
SIMPLE SOLUTION.. after the update I uninstalled the Yahoo toolbar and yahoo updates apps from my list of programs..
I want to remove yahoo from my computer and im having problems doing it why is this happening.
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