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TopicUhhhhh... crap. Guess they finally purged that Yahoo email I barely ever touched
ParanoidObsessive
12/02/19 5:26:37 PM
#10:


streamofthesky posted...
Verizon already killed AOL Instant Messenger and Tumblr

To be fair, by the time they offed AIM there were about 3 people in the entire world left still using it, to the point where nearly everyone's response to AIM getting shut down was "Wait, AIM still existed?"

As for Tumblr, it still exists. And no, "Verizon made it worse!" really isn't a valid argument, because Tumblr was a festering wound begging for a mercy killing long before Verizon owned it (and "Hey, maybe 33% of the site's content shouldn't be porn" was probably a pretty understandable call to make for any ownership company - and was also a problem the site was dealing with before Verizon bought it). And they've since sold it off anyway..

With Yahoo mail (and even Yahoo search and other Yahoo features), the installed user-base is pretty significant, and Verizon isn't likely to make any major changes because they don't really need to, so there's very little motivation for them to sell off or gut anything.
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