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3. Yup! I've known it for ages....
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:09 PM
Sep 2012

....after I began to notice that all of their "news" stories contained a right wing slant and were drawn from neo nazi news sources.

I also began to notice that the bylines of their news stories don't necessarily have anything to do with the content of the actual story, because their primary intent is just to get you to click on the story so that they can use the stats of the total number of hits on their stories to justify the increase in rates that they charge their advertisers. It's known as capitalism or advertising or deception.

It's a real dichotomy, given that Yahoo is based in the socially progressive, liberal, San Francisco Bay Area. I subscribe as a paying customer to their shoddy email service, but the only reason why is because it is convenient for me to do so. For my internet browser, I gave up on Yahoo and I now use Google, with much greater satisfaction and no heart burn..

And as a further caution, I would recommend staying away from filling out a "profile" on their "big brother" Yahoo Messenger. If you do so, be prepared to have them give links to it to every person who you send an email to, and to attach all of your messenger comments, as well as comments on any of their "news" stories, to your emails as well. It's the "Face Palm" approach of trying to expose as much information about you to as many people as they possibly can. That way, you know that someone is always looking over your shoulder.

But beware of bias on the part of myself because I absolutely abhor anything to do with "Face Palm" or Zuckerface.

upon edit to expand thesis.

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