I don't have a cell phone. They don't work here & never will. No mobile number means no yahoo account.
I don't have a cell phone. They don't work here & never will. No mobile number means no yahoo account. All web access is via government subsidized satellite access. I cannot get a YAHOO account without a mobile. Why? Yahoo was around for ages without this stupid policy.
This policy is one that assumes that all the world in exactly liker YOUR life is...everyone lives near a cell tower...everyone has a phone of their very own.
You folks need to realize that the vast majority of humanity has never even seen a telephone. Of those who DO have phone access, only a tiny number of people have mobile access of their own. A huge number of people have no cell access and only limited land line access. They access the web through shared resources (often via a satellite link). THESE are the people who most need to have an email address that is not associated with an ISP. In fact, it is pretty much a given that if a person HAS a mobile they already have at least one email address (it comes with the mobile, vie their telecom or Gmail) and they do not need YAHOO at all.
There are other choices than SMS for security (like secret questions) and they work even better that a cell #. So the only real reason(s) for Yahoo to force people to give out their mobile # :
- to associate their yahoo activity with their phone number. So either you are spying for the NSA or you are building marketing profiles ties to peoples cell number to identify them uniquely as people. This is only done to SELL data (marketing profiles) and profiles which include that level of detail are illegal in most of the 1st world. Most of the world has not abandoned basic human right in the way the USA has,
Try acting like an ethical global corporation, instead of an unethical provincial one.