I’ve had a yahoo email acct for years with no problems.
Today when I tried to log in, I did so successfully, but then got a window that asked for a contact phone number. There was no “No thanks” button or whatever allowing one to bypass the screen and go to Inbox.
What if I don’t have a contact phone number, or don’t care to share a private phone number? Can I bypass this screen?
Try all zeros. Barring that use your area code then a 555 number.
I haven’t had that happen with yahoo, but in a few cases where a website forced me to use a phone number, and made me confirm it (via text, usually) and it’s a site that I didn’t want to give out my number to, I used Google Voice. You can get a phone number there (for free), it’ll be able to send and receive text messages and then when you’re done, just forget about it.
I don’t recall if you can actually delete it, so make sure you turn off it’s voice mail, missed call notification etc.
Or buy a burner for $10 at Dollar General.
Yahoo is serious about wanting a phone number for all of their users. They haven’t allowed a new account to be created for years without a verified phone number, although they have allowed older accounts to continue. And it can’t be a landline phone number, it has to be a phone number capable of texting.
There are web postings and youtube videos showing how to circumvent this requirement, but Yahoo has been diligently plugging every hole that people discover. They seem to have all of the virtual phone/text web sites already covered.
If you don’t have a texting phone or don’t want to tell them the number, they simply don’t want your business.
If they are now in fact requiring the grandfathered users to provide them a number, this is a disturbing development. Looks like a lot of people are going to be locked out of their email and tumblr. (What else does anyone still use yahoo for? And now that they’ve blocked naughty images, does anyone still use tumblr?)
Then you’d have to keep paying at least the monthly minimum to keep the burner active, because you never know when yahoo will decide that there was something about your last login that requires them to verify you by sending you a text.
Every 10 or 15 times that I log into my yahoo email, it nags me about adding my phone number. Never required, just requested.
yeah I created a yahoo e-mail account for my cousin because she was moving to paperless billing …. you just keep clicking not now or maybe later
Now you cant creat an AOL mail account with out a cell number … I even called their cs and asked and they said nope …… The aol account that’s family used is a holdover from aol’s 5.0 days ……
Using a cell # is one of the only ways you can get back into a locked-out account. Or if Yahoo thinks you’re logging in from a strange device, or if you forget the password.
I just checked my ancient Yahoo! account.
They asked for verification of my other linked email account. This makes sense since this is the first login on my new 'puter.
No request for phone number or anything.
Last login apparently around May of last year.
When I’ve run into these things on preexisting accounts with no apparent way out, I’ve usually been able to
simply refresh the page, or, barring that, clear my cookies for the site and then log in again and bypass it.
I just logged back into my account, which I’ve not used in years. It was a bit of a hassle: I had to go verify my account using my secondary email (luckily, the Gmail account I currently use). Then it forced me to choose “secure my account,” saying that suspicious activity had been detected. I got a capcha that actually required me pick out the pictures. Then it forced me to change my password. Finally, it asked me for my phone number.
However, “Secure my account later” was an option, and I chose it, and I’m into my old account(albeit with it telling me that Yahoo has a new interface). Apparently I still am subscribed to newsletters from Fark.com.
(Edit: And I get messages about my Facebook account–even though when I try to use that email to log into Facebook, it says there is no such email account. And it does seem to be a legit email from Facebook. I’m pretty sure I scrambled my email address after disabling the account. But then, how did it still email me at Yahoo?)
I’ve found refreshing the page doesn’t necessarily work, but going back a screen & re-logging in does.
Flikr is a Yahoo product, too.
Out of date info.
Flickr was sold off by Verizon almost a year ago to SmugMug. (Verizon kept Yahoo!)
SmugMug has since altered the free storage caps to “encourage” people to upgrade to Pro.
I still use my old Yahoo login to get onto Flikr & everything else looks the same, so while they may have a new owner now, I don’t believe much else has changed.