Yahoo to Verizon?

Anybody getting a message from Yahoo mail saying “Yahoo plans to sell its operating business to Verizon” message with a link to changes in its “Terms of Service”?

I also use Yahoo mail and just apprehensive to open the link for it might be something else (backdrop of the recent internet viral attack in mind).

I use both Yahoo and Verizon and I did not get that message.
You are right to be wary.

Yeah I got that message too. I use both Verizon and Yahoo. Verizon has been OK for me for the most part, but I hate Yahoo. I’m forced to use the latter because my sons boy scout troop has an email group alias set up using Yahoo. I much prefer the google ecosystem for mail and other stuff.

Haven’t they been talking about this for 2-3 months now? Thats when I first heard of the possibility. I thought they couldn’t get past the legal approval of the deal…?

With Verizons purchase of straight path, and when this Yahoo deal is approved you can see how they are trying to position themselves for 5G.

Did you open the Terms of Service link?

i did read the TOS.
it includes this [unbelievably - but apparently it has been in there since 2007]

A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF USERS MAY EXPERIENCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES WHEN EXPOSED TO CERTAIN LIGHT PATTERNS OR BACKGROUNDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN OR WHILE USING THE YAHOO SERVICE. CERTAIN CONDITIONS MAY INDUCE PREVIOUSLY UNDETECTED EPILEPTIC SYMPTOMS EVEN IN USERS WHO HAVE NO HISTORY OF PRIOR SEIZURES OR EPILEPSY. IF YOU, OR ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY, HAVE AN EPILEPTIC CONDITION, CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN PRIOR TO USING THE YAHOO SERVICE. IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE YAHOO SERVICES AND CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS WHILE USING THE YAHOO SERVICE: DIZZINESS, ALTERED VISION, EYE OR MUSCLE TWITCHES, LOSS OF AWARENESS, DISORIENTATION, ANY INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, OR CONVULSIONS.