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Why did Xfinity embrace the Yahoo platform disaster?
Xfinity stopped working with Outlook and Apple Mail yesterday. Nothing was changed on my systems (all four of them). Someone told me about the Xfinity plan to abandon all of the Xfinity email function, and move the Comcast.net addresses to the unsafe Yahoo platform. NOT GOOD! Yesterday all of the comcast.net emails ceased to arrive on any of the devices using Outlook & Outlook365 on Win10, Win11, and MacOS, MacMail, iOS mail on iPads, iPhones. This is a disaster! Yes, the settings are correct and UNCHANGED for more than two years.
I've read the instructions for migrating to a different email platform. I have kept Comcast/Xfinity as my provider over the years for Internet & TV mainly because I've had comcast.net as my primary email. Is it time to leave Xfinity and find another provider? If I don't have comcast.net as an email address on a safe platform, why have Xfinity at all?
user_77vrr3
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Comcast’s upcoming shift of its legacy email service to Yahoo raises privacy and security concerns for anyone still using a Comcast.net address. Yahoo will analyze email content to serve targeted ads. They will also sell information about you to third parties. This terrible decision will be rolled out over the next year in groups. Yahoo will resell you. They monitor all your emails, including receipts for whatever you purchase online. They will also steal all your contacts so they can spam them as well.
I don't want all my emails or any of my information going to Yahoo to process and sell. I don't want my computer exposed to the potential viruses in their ads. I don't want any information of mine exposed to whomever they will sell it to or who those people will resell it to.
Yahoo also does a terrible job with email. They have had multiple breaches because of their lack of security. Furthermore, they subscribe to many flaky email scanners and often get false positives and refuse to deliver legitimate email that everyone else delivers.
If you want to keep your Comcast.net email address, you'll need to go with the privacy-disrespecting and security-challenged Yahoo Mail platform. Yahoo Mail will work with Outlook or Thunderbird or most normal email clients, or you can use your browser and endure all their advertising.
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