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Yahoo change their ToS to let them scrape your email content

2 pointsby junkblocker2 months ago

3 comments

junkblocker2 months ago
Quoting<p><pre><code> Use of AI and Third-Party AI Providers. Some of our Services have features and functionality powered by our trusted third-party AI providers (“AI Providers”). AI-powered chat service provided by Microsoft Copilot relies on search services from Bing. By utilizing our Services, you consent to sharing data that you provide to us, or that resides within your Yahoo account, including your Yahoo Mail inbox with our AI Providers for the purpose of enhancing features within our Services made available to you. In some instances, use of AI query features may be governed by the AI Provider’s terms of service and privacy policy. You understand and agree that content or responses generated by AI may contain inaccuracies and should never be relied upon without independent verification. Yahoo does not control the content or responses provided by AI Providers, and makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy or completeness of such content or responses (or the sites and sources accessed through such content or responses). You also agree not to enter sensitive personal information into any AI powered query.</code></pre>
anenefan2 months ago
If one is working within their own personal account looking for certain emails, it would be somewhat hard to not enter personal information if looking for emails that concerned their real identity.<p>In the past it would have not been an issue for myself since I was and am careful not to include anything real for web based email systems. The only real privacy issue I had with yahoo is when they were tasked to nab my real identity back in 2004 or so, yup first time I forgot to use the second proxy (paid) ... obviously the web based proxy was not as anonymous as they claimed. P.S. nothing <i>bad</i> like cp -- just helping out by tracking down old hard to find drivers and such for those folks (by way of a forum) who&#x27;d lost their Dos &#x2F; Win 95 based software or driver disk.<p>Now I&#x27;m left to wonder, by data does that just mean what one has as far as emails, attachments and various content that has been uploaded or all data including what yahoo has on the account holder which is not necessarily listed.
theGeatZhopa2 months ago
thank you for the fish. I considered making an account - but, given the new information, no - thank you. I rather won&#x27;t yahoo&#x27;ing.