My guess is that Yahoo paid, but, it's easy enough to "fix the glitch". I use firefox with no hint of Yahoo.

I guess I'm doing something wrong, I still get their email w/o a phone number.

If you were to try and set up an account now, you would need to provide a mobile phone number.

I still have a Yahoo account. I created it about 14 years ago.

Does anyone know how to delete it? (I've looked in account setting etc... Nothing)

Please explain Auto-Populate.

I have a Yahoo account I think. Also four or five AOL accounts. I haven't looked at them in ages and no longer have the passwords.

I have 5 gmail accounts.
one for friends and family
one for financial institutions
one for ordering on line
one for the mandatory email address on sketchy sites, etc.
one for my wife and I to send suggestive emails and that links to our gmail calendar.

My wife is still coming to terms with the idea that you can have more than one address.

LOL, and spewing drink on laptop. Do you know how much a new Macbook keyboard costs? These things aren't gin-proof you know. LOL!

I have one. It sucks but I'm not excited about changing it as I've had it since about 1997 :( At one time it worked pretty well. That time has passed.

That is pretty funny. Two thumbs up.

I only give my Yahoo Address to people I don't like very much....

Still have one, but I mostly never use it. Don't remember why I made this account. Lol.

I still have my paid AOL acct after 21 years. It is great for spam.

Does anyone still use Yahoo!?
 

I still use it for all non-personal / unimportant email. It's good for that. They haven't required a mobile phone number and they won't get one: If it ever becomes a requirement I'll let the account die and go elsewhere. Google is 1,000x worse and I am very careful about what goes through ANY Google server (including / especially analytics on third party sites). Fortunately these are easy enough to block. That said, I still have a Google Voice account (great thing, that!) and a GMail account that's for slightly-more-important spam but still spam (a "gmail.com" email address isn't looked at with all that much disdain in the professional world when job-hunting, etc. whereas a "yahoo.com" might be and and "aol.com" certainly is).

It's impossible to completely prevent digital profiling and footprints but with a little effort you can make them very hard (and expensive) for scumbag marketers / big data types to bother with. Making it as hard and expensive as possible for them is something I get satisfaction from doing - almost as much as deliberately never buying from anyone who ever solicits me.

I had a Yahoo account because of a Hugh school reunion. When they started charging for POP access, I closed the account.

And I would guess Google has them all tied together (just so you know).

++What he said.

I still use yahoo.

But every few months they change around their format.
Random. Totally bassakwards.
Non-intuitive.
Like they specifically want customers/clients to leave, and then forever never ever again access their website.

The 'news' is pure garbage.

I use Yahoo. Never had a problem.....but I'm not a computer savy fella.
Had it for years. Just another computer thingy that I've made my peace with.

I keep a yahoo address / account as it's where a couple of groups I follow post their calendars, etc.
I don't use it for anything other than that. I never give out the address to anyone else. I never go to the yahoo homepage or use it as a search engine...
If you're a Mac user, there's a fantastic spam filter called "Spam Sieve". After you give it a sampling of good and bad it does a great job of filtering. Then, set up your mail client as an IMAP account and let Spam Sieve do the filtering. The spam will be deleted from the server as soon as you clear the spam inbox. I'll look at the spam folder about once a month, sorting by sender and looking for actual mail, and then do a "select all" and hit delete.