---
title: "Yahoo, you suck. Badly."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/yahoo-you-suck-badly--n30szk7gp
source_url: https://www.einenlum.com/articles/yahoo-you-suck/
type: article
source: "Einenlum - Coding amongst alpacas and pinball machines"
published: 2026-02-01T08:36:38.560Z
updated: 2026-02-01T08:37:29.459Z
tags: ["ux", "data-privacy"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Yahoo, you suck. Badly.

**[Einenlum - Coding amongst alpacas and pinball machines](https://daily.dev/sources/einenlum)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Yahoo deleted all emails from an inactive account without warning, despite having contact information to notify the user. The author lost decades of personal correspondence and memories from their first email address, created as a teenager. Yahoo's policy deletes all data after account deactivation due to inactivity, with no backup option or grace period, affecting many users who lost irreplaceable conversations including those with deceased friends.

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