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Implementing this in your yahoo account is optional of course.
I hear about this in the tech news. Do you believe other companies will follow yahoo's lead if this proves to be secure than the two factor authentication?
All they really want is to connect your e-mail account to your phone number. I don't like this. Are they gonna sell my phone number to ad companies so they'll call me all the time as well as spam my inbox.
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All they really want is to connect your e-mail account to your phone number. I don't like this. Are they gonna sell my phone number to ad companies so they'll call me all the time as well as spam my inbox.
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Thankfully I have a grandfathered account and so far no phone number necessary. I will NOT give them my phone number as it is none of their business.
Not that I'm playing at being paranoid and all, but this propensity for Google to want me to login and all for stuff concerns me somewhat, as it does for Yahoo.
And funny, I have a system at home where the hard drive failed so I happen to live boot it via a USB. I never bothered to figure out how to save any data to maintain an account or remembrance of former boots. Mainly I boot it up to do general surfing, read the paper, or view youtube videos. And if I'm on Google or Yahoo I don't give my credentials. I don't check email on that system mainly because I have a tablet where I see email, therefore it doesn't get my credentials from any instance such as that. I may install noscript on the browser to avoid all kinds of script issues. Amazing how that becomes an issue on a default browser just trying to view youtube, eh? And then any information, including an installation of noscript becomes invalid when I shut it off. I actually kind of like that. It's sort of like an untarnished system that starts fresh all the time.
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