Wednesday, October 7, 2009

why I hate Yahoo

Yahoo sucks. They used to be a great company that produced quality web services and now they just suck. Some of the idiotic things that Yahoo has done include:

1. Forced installation of a Yahoo browser bar if you install anything Yahoo related like their IM program. I don't want that stupid browser bar sitting right below my firefox navigator, taking up valuable screen space. How many useless search bars do I need?

2. Yahoo IM locks out constantly and every time a Yahoo developer fixes one IM issue, they send out annoying yahoo_admin update messages. So I switched to Trillian but the Yahoo IM plugin found it's way to harass me with their updates.

3. The draft autosave in Yahoo mail doesn't work. If you don't type your email and save As Draft or send it out within 10 minutes, you're logged off. Log back in and lo and behold, your message is gone! I've wasted so much time typing one email over and over again until I got fed up and started typing it in Word just so I could copy and paste it to yahoo. It's ridiculous and annoying.

Yahoo can't seem to get their shit together. Every mail program I know has an autosave program that works. I wish they would just copy the code off google, like everyone else and fix their mail program.

4. Yahoo's search algorithms find obscure and useless information I don't need. Did I say useless? Enough said.

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