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Aug 30, 2022 @ approximately 2:00 pm

I couldn't log into one of my accounts on Yahoo, even through I know the pass word. Yahoo wants me to verify who I am... what the F? Because THEY have the wrong ph# than the one I've had for the last 5 years. I can't long in. I know my ph#, I wouldn't put in the wrong number YAHOO! I call them and tell them what's going on. This lady that can barely speak English what's to verify who I am through a ID, but the scanner thing they send me to scan my ID doesn't work. And because of this they have no way to help me they say... WHAT THE F ? This is BS! I told the lady this wasn't Fort Knox we were running over here... its an E-Mail account. They refuse to help me. I will be closing my other account I've since the day of time because of the service they couldn't / wouldn't give me for the other account.

Customer service sucks.

Good luck to whoever chooses to stay.

Every day I receive disgusting and deeply offensive emails which I cannot block as there are no email addresses. They all start with offensive swear words such as "f*** and the whole title is offensive and can be read by my young children doing their homework on my laptop.

These words should be automatically blocked from being sent out unsolicited.

Any email with such filth should be automatically blocked by Yahoo.

I wrote a humorous (by any standard) comment, and was rejected by Yahoo, apparently based solely on terminology.

The article was about WHO considering renaming "Monkeypox" as to not offend anybody.

My comment was as follows :

"Black plague. No.

Yellow fever. No.

Smallpox. No. (bulk discrimination)

Cholera. No. (discrimination against green people)

OK. How about Manpox? No. (sexism)

How about PPAP pox?

Primate Person Ape People pox?

Pikotaro, so precient."

I hope some people remember the global "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen" (PPAP) craze a few years ago by Pikotaro.

I have no idea which word triggered the rejection.

Need clarification on acceptability.

At least admit it is a vocabulary filter, not a true AI program.

Constant misleading headlines e.g. World in shock after stars tragic news. More often and not the person is not a star today it was a similar headline and it was about the president of some NFL team. In no way a star. Most often it is about a 5 rate actor who very few have heard of and if it is about a known person the story relates to their 15th cousin 100 times removed getting a splinter in their finger. This happens several times a day.

Why was my comment rejected? There was nothing inflammatory about it and no personal attacks. It started off, "So, you object to a bill that benefits seniors and the middle class and is paid for?" Then I went on to compare the IRA bill with Trump's TCJA. When it was flagged that there might be a problem, I looked the whole thing over and saw nothing wrong. I had said that the middle class tax cuts were "dwarfed" by the others, so I changed that, thinking that the word "dwarfed" might have been misunderstood and tried again. Then it was simply rejected. No other chance to edit, not sent for approval, nothing. Surely a company like Yahoo can do better than this.

Yahoo is overcensoring!

I was posting the following in my protest against the one drop rule in response to a comment that was made about a Dominican actress that was cast as Batgirl, and it got rejected. There was nothing offensive about my comment. I just explained my genealogical ancestry.

This was my comment that got rejected for not aligning with yahoo Community Guidelines:

My Genealogical Ancestry

paternal grandfather: African American born in Louisiana

paternal grandmother's father: African American born in Southern Louisiana

other roots in Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky

paternal grandmother's mother: African American with English and Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia) born in Southern Louisiana

colonial roots in Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina

maternal grandfather's father: American born in California and son of immigrants from Cape Verde (Portuguese and Sub Saharan African)

maternal grandfather's mother: American born in California with a father from Puerto Rico (Spanish, Sub Saharan African, and Taino) and mother that was Hawaiian born daughter of immigrants from Madeira (Portuguese with Sub Saharan African)

maternal grandmother's father: European American born in Oregon of mainly English ancestry with German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian

colonial roots in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island

other roots in Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana

maternal grandmother's mother: Ashkenazi Jewish American born in Nebraska with father immigrated from Romania and mother immigrated from Courland (in what is now known as Latvia) in Russian Empire

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/letters-whoever-wins-scotland-still-040000980.html

Scotland had a referendum in 2014. The decisive vote was to stay as part of UK.

This article is no more than biased letters from angry separatists posing as "news"

There is no substantial data to back a change of attitude, and this is lazy, damaging work.

At best this is propaganda, at worst this is scaremongering and damaging to Scotland's economy as businesses will loo elsewhere to invest

South Korean news talking about korean defectors being dragged back at border sparks condemnation from seoul.

I tried make comment about this incident. they are talking about these defectors killing 16 people. However there is no evidence presented. All evidence was cleaned by previous government and all evidence was closed to public.

My comment was rejected automatically and one photo showing wrong picture of boat telling others that it happen on that ship. The ship is much much small.

All comments are leading to 2 defectors killed 16 people on board and it is OK to send them back to North Korea. Those 2 people came to South Korea for freedom. Now with out any evidence they were sent back for excution.

Yahoo mail account for over 10 years….. [protected]@yahoo.com

3 weeks ago I get an error message! I can’t access my account! Second time it’s happened this year! First time I called and finally someone helped me, I reset my recovery email and password and thought that was that! However, this time when I call I was told that the new recovery and email had , in fact not been changed! Great! So I can’t access my emails using the recovery method because of this! So I call the premium help line! 4 weeks I have been calling and because my old recovery email has not been used for 12 months it no longer works! I Contact AOL to be told that the email no longer exists! I need important work and personal emails!

Why is it so hard! Totally ridiculous that I’m told time and time again by yahoo that they cannot help me!

[protected]@icloud.com

Is my NEW email address

Please someone put me out of my misery and get me back into it!

why I am I unable to download items, photos from your website, it keeps converting to google , which I dont use.

5/7/2022

I lost access to a yahoo.com email address two weeks ago and the recovery email I had in place is now deactivated due to lack of use and when I contacted aol they said they cannot reactivate it and yahoo will not help me get back into my account! I’ve had this account over ten years!

Please can someone help me! I’ve called so many times and each time they cannot help! Totally ridiculous that I’ve lost access to very important emails!

Please help

[protected]@icloud.com

Wrongfully blocked for posting facts falsely claiming they violated community standards. I am unable to respond to replies to my existing posts. If I am not allowed to respond after being wrongfully blocked no one should be able to reply to previous posts without my ability to counter. Your policies blocking verifiable facts are very unfair and there should be an arbitration system to correct this.

i called to help access my email account. i answered various questions which the agent kept asking me to spell out. the questions became more intrusive and were frankly impertinent. After 12 minutes we'd not completed the security questions despite giving my full name, current and past addresses, confirming some sub folder names. and confirming six mail recipients. i asked that i speak to a manager then asked to raise a complaint, the agent ended the call after telling me to access the website

I've had yahoo mail for many years. Recently, early every morning 6-8 junk emails are put in my Inbox. I then go to each one and click to block sender. These are obvious spam emails with long strings of unreadable letters. For years, up until just recently these types of emails only came occasionally and were sent directly to the Trash folder. Apparently now yahoo feels spam belongs in the Inbox folder and not the trash folder. Is there a problem at Yahoo mail or is this dedicated effort by Yahoo to sell their paid services? There used to be customer support and user forums that could answers these questions, but no more.

Why are we failing to access our emails. The email section is not opening normally. Hence I am failing to access the email when I need to check my urgent emails. Why is it si, be it on cell phone or laptop. Please may you resolve this urgently, it is greatly inconveniencing me.

I'm so sick of trying to read some daily news and all you report is bad news about the conservatives or President Trump or the sickening things Whoopie or Joy say daily, I'm trying to move my email to gmail because I've come to hate Yahoo. I think you are losing a lot of your customers. It's always bad things about Trump or bad things about anyone of the popular conservatives. I never saw one negative thing about Hillary and her fake accusations against Trump and Russia and nothing about negative about Hunter but let a conservative do one little thing and you are all over it. Peter Doocy is always on your list too.

I broke my phone and since i could not messages for the code when I tried to get in to my emails I was locked out. and I was locked out of my recovery emails also. I have just one and it is not linked as my recovery email. I need to acces it it as soon as possible I can not get in to my [protected]@yahoo.com and my [protected]@yahoo.com. You can contact me at

my name is Linda Clark-Moore

[protected]@gmail.com

Horrible experience with Yahoo! They locked my elderly relative out of his mail account and we spent 4 hours over 2 days trying to get it reset. When we called, the reps said we had to give them his driver's license number. I asked each customer service rep where they were calling from and and they are all based in the Phillipines. Why would my relative give his DL number to someone he doesn't know and doesn't live in this country? We tried to ask for the mobile number connected to the account to be chnaged so he ould reset his password (presumably the easiest solution) but they wanted the DL number first. Is this a SCAM? Feels like it!

Yahoo Push advertising offered a "laser Torch" 3000 Mw Blue Laser kit in solid aluminum case with multiple tips. A full video showed how powerful and eay to start a campfire with this device. The company offering this device is Idistil and they were showing a special "50% discount deal through Yahoo which seemed to legitimize the offer. I researched the product and found it available at full price through several other sources. I ordered a two for one deal and after about 45 days received a cheap cardboard boxed pair of $6 cheap Chinese Purple laser pointers with 100 Mw of power. When I demanded my money back through the site, they began a bait and switch campaign offering first a 10% refund, then 20%, 25%, 40%, 50% and made all kinds of excuses (see attached email string), all the while apologizing but not explaining the totally different product that I was shipped-and trying to convince me that it was to MY BENEFIT to keep the crap they sent me and be thrilled with a 50% refund.

What about stories about decent and even heroic minorities. Do you forget about us too? Why you took their side and publish so many Republican stories. Why don’t help us? They want to exterminate us. Are you with them? Please help us.