Data harvesting is a lucrative business. You don’t need to have a good product with todays internet, you just need to have access to a lot of insanely personal data, and yahoo has both an expansive advertising network and hosts hundreds of millions of email accounts. They're just Google except they don't pretend to care about anything else

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yahoo Auctions is still massive in Japan.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

We used to use them to farm and sell gold and rare items in an online game that I won't mention because I'm afraid it will restart my addiction.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Jason Scott compared "we've been acquired by Yahoo!" to "we found a lump."

That was easily ten years ago.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 days ago

They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don't have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Fuck-all was the good option.

RIP Tumblr.