Comments on: The Last Days of Yahoo! 1.0 http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/08/28/the-last-days-of-yahoo-10/ Adventures in web and mobile globalization Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frank Languagehttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2006/08/28/the-last-days-of-yahoo-10/comment-page-1/#comment-24330 Frank Language Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:48:54 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/2006/08/28/the-last-days-of-yahoo-10/#comment-24330 I quit my Yahoo! account as soon as I learned they did business with Alibaba. I've often done these things; I had to get rid of my cingular (now AT&T) cell phone and pay a penalty when I read they're the largest supporters of rodeos (America's bullfights.) <br><br>Admittedly, I had a lot of internal resistance to doing so; it was the e-mail address I liked to use to receive non-important mail, so as to free up my POP account. It was my full name, and it was cool. <br><br>But even if boycotts are essentially useless—and they seem to be, a lot of the time—I wanted to do the right thing, and I wouldn't feel right about keeping it. So I resigned it. <br><br>I don't regret it. I quit my Yahoo! account as soon as I learned they did business with Alibaba. I've often done these things; I had to get rid of my cingular (now AT&T) cell phone and pay a penalty when I read they're the largest supporters of rodeos (America's bullfights.)

Admittedly, I had a lot of internal resistance to doing so; it was the e-mail address I liked to use to receive non-important mail, so as to free up my POP account. It was my full name, and it was cool.

But even if boycotts are essentially useless—and they seem to be, a lot of the time—I wanted to do the right thing, and I wouldn't feel right about keeping it. So I resigned it.

I don't regret it.

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