Yahoo! Mail - New Privacy and Terms - Can you decline?

An associate who used to be a client received something like:

New Privacy and Terms - Yahoo Mail is now part of Oath.
from his private email.

Can he decline & still use Yahoo Mail?

 

https://policies.yahoo.com/ie/en/yahoo/privacy/euoathnoticefaq/

 

If not for Flickr i wouldn't have any Yahoo accounts anymore, but oh well, it's just for show from this end anyway.
Nothing of any real importance ever went on there anyway.
It's probably ok for throwaway email.

 

THANK YOU anon.

 

Oath? Seriously? "Oath of ..."?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Inc.

 

I get that. It's just a deeply strange name.

 

The word Oath has different strong meanings. One is: word of honor.

I learned long ago a tip-top conman will tell the mark they are being conned. Said clearly, maybe laughed about & then denied. They will tell the truth once, it's a point of honor among grifters.

So VZ stuck a toe in with the name Oath. I give them a 1/10 on the grifters scale.

 

Got word instead of saying Accept or Dismiss.
Now it says Accept or I'll do this later.

** VZ errr Oath.

 

OK, so it's like "You can trust us." Which is something that only people who are lying typically say

 

I have a feeling you can't decline, you must accept, but that's no surprise.

 

Yeah, it says at the bottom that, if you decline, you can nuke your Yahoo! mail account.

 

I wonder why then they give the choice to decline?

 

@Antarctica: To seem kind instead of invasively totalitarian.

 

Oath's privacy policy is a privacy nightmare
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/16/oaths-privacy-policy-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

 

Every entity of any sizeable scale is the same whether acknowledged or not or covertly by the 3letters.

 

I am not in the USA, and I keep getting this intrusive new 'terms and conditions' popup whenever I login into Yahoo Mail! I have nothing to to with Oath/Verizon, as I am in Australia, and am not a US citizen. So far, I have been declining without any dire results! Funny thing is when I try to login to Yahoo! mail account it comes up 'UK and Ireland' as the gateway.

 

Just made the switch from Rogers Yahoo mail to Outlook.com mail, as part of my "deRogering" initiative. I feel like I've just emptied the trash. Rogers, you're next!

 

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Are these guys for real? Sounds like a huge breach of privacy, but what else is new.

 

Email just isn't secure. Unless you use OpenPGP, and do it very carefully. And that's not going to happen with mainstream stuff, including banking. So it's best to avoid email with banks, credit cards, and so on. Just pretend that you don't use email. Websites with HTTPS are the only safe option, now. Maybe secure messaging, if they offer it.

 

So if you wanted to totally dump Yahoo, how would you do that? Is it even feasible?

 

For email, your thread https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/which-secure-email-provider.399196/ has good suggestions.

For whatever else, it doesn't matter so much. Just don't leak anything that you don't want known on the Internet. Using the usual: VMs, VPNs, Tor, etc.

 

Don't use e-mail or any other messaging protocol? Why would I want to use Internet at all without that?
Besides that websites are centralized. E-mail is decentralized infrastructure. I acknowledge that e-mail compared to WWW via TLS is more vulnerable to eavesdropping between MTAs (but this begins to change), but at least e-mail is not owned by single company.