Yahoo Mail has started requiring a mobile phone #, what if you don't have one or don't want to give it to them. Our ISP (local phone company) just transferred their e-mail accounts to Yahoo. This is ridiculous, why do they require a mobile phone # since they have 2 email addresses on file now. I was unsure of where to put this, here or in privacy and security, mods feel free to move. rrrh1 (arch1)
My ISP uses Yahoo but after 5 years I couldn't take it anymore. Switched to Outlook.com and haven't looked back.
I have four Yahoo! Mail Accounts, two I POP, the other two I use IMAP, Do not use the web interface much. I just logged in to all four accounts via my browser. I was asked on one account. I hit Save and Continue with no number and carried on.
Move to other mail provider. I know I did after I couldn't access my mail account and their support replied my mail after a month.
Yes it would be very annoying. I just checked all four of my accounts again, logging in with Firefox and was not asked for a number for any of my accounts. You could alway try using an email client with IMAP to access your account. Do you have a secondary email account listed for your account? That could be a trigger.
What I find annoying is that they offer me the option to add a phone number even if my country is not in their list...
There are manya free phone number services online that can be used as a one time authentication mechanism. (Think of the free email throwaways for spam in the 90's). While I wouldn't use them for sensitive accounts, for throw away emails however, they come in handy.
