OK, they're not actually sitting there personally reading each and every one, but they have a program that scans the documents for key words and then uses that info to target you with advertising.
But you probably already know that, right? And it's not just Yahoo, the rest of the "free" email services do it as well. If you read their policy they make it sound like they're doing us the favor by making sure the advertising that they send is useful to us. Of course this is all BS and I doubt any of us knows anyone, anywhere in the world that has agreed that this is helpful to them in any way, shape or form.
And to make matters worse, if someone sends an email to you from their own secure server, Yahoo reads that email as well. They don't have that persons permission but they can do this because their privacy policy (that you clicked on and agreed to) says that you will notify the other party that this is happening so by default, that person is giving Yahoo permission to read their emails as well.
So here's what I'd like to see everyone do. Create a useless email address at gmail.com, call it something like useless@gmail.com. Then create another useless email address at Yahoo.com, call it useless@yahoo.com. Then take all the SPAM that arrives in your real email and send it to both of your useless email addresses. If your email is anything like mine it won't take long before there are thousands of junk SPAM emails in both useless email addresses.
Then on a daily basis, go to one of the useless email addresses, select all of the messages and forward them to the other useless email address. And then go to the other useless email address and send them all back to the other. Back and forth, back and forth, etc, etc, repeat...
If everyone did this on a daily basis, well you get the idea. These guy's like to read emails, I suggest we give them some to read...
But you probably already know that, right? And it's not just Yahoo, the rest of the "free" email services do it as well. If you read their policy they make it sound like they're doing us the favor by making sure the advertising that they send is useful to us. Of course this is all BS and I doubt any of us knows anyone, anywhere in the world that has agreed that this is helpful to them in any way, shape or form.
And to make matters worse, if someone sends an email to you from their own secure server, Yahoo reads that email as well. They don't have that persons permission but they can do this because their privacy policy (that you clicked on and agreed to) says that you will notify the other party that this is happening so by default, that person is giving Yahoo permission to read their emails as well.
So here's what I'd like to see everyone do. Create a useless email address at gmail.com, call it something like useless@gmail.com. Then create another useless email address at Yahoo.com, call it useless@yahoo.com. Then take all the SPAM that arrives in your real email and send it to both of your useless email addresses. If your email is anything like mine it won't take long before there are thousands of junk SPAM emails in both useless email addresses.
Then on a daily basis, go to one of the useless email addresses, select all of the messages and forward them to the other useless email address. And then go to the other useless email address and send them all back to the other. Back and forth, back and forth, etc, etc, repeat...
If everyone did this on a daily basis, well you get the idea. These guy's like to read emails, I suggest we give them some to read...