I went to Yahoo! yesterday (26th May).
I landed instead on a page from Oath advising me that Yahoo! - and associated websites - would be complying with GDPR but first I had to consent to a few terms of access.
Don’t you just love that word ‘consent’?
So anyway, the gist was that if I didn’t ‘consent’, I wouldn’t be able to access Yahoo! or its services ever ever again. Huh. I have email there. So I went to check out these ‘terms of access’ and it turns out they almost entirely consisted of a list of ‘approved’ third-party advert/shitvert/shill-mill/fakenews companies I could (or not) choose to allow harvest my data.
I deselected all except one, and continued to login to my Yahoo! account.
The page immediately went back to the Oath page and advised me that Yahoo! - and associated websites - would be complying with GDPR but first I had to consent to a few terms of access…
Yes, I checked my previous choices and they’d all been reset to ‘approved’.
Fucking Viacom.
