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Is Yahoo removing adult profiles?

Is Yahoo really deleting adult profiles or is this a spam/phishing/hoax?

  • I receied this email yesterday and I am wondering if this is a fake. my profile pic is not adult content, nor is my profile "mature content". i only chose the setting to prevent getting hit on by 17 year olds. lol. i have heard from other friends that got the email also. so is this for real????? An important notice about your Yahoo! Profiles photo We're making some changes that will affect one of your Yahoo! profiles. After April 9, 2008, mature content will not be permitted within Yahoo! Profiles. In accordance with this new policy, users will no longer be able to designate an "adult profile," and mature content will be removed. The profile for the Yahoo! ID fancydarlin is marked "adult." The picture associated with this profile will be removed and deleted on April 9, 2008. We encourage you to upload a new profile photo on that date that complies with the Yahoo! Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

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    It does not seem to be a hoax. A lot of people are getting them; perhaps anyone who has an adult profile. It's making its way into the news ... See link below ...

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If you've acted like a responsible adult, because you didn't want to be bothered by kiddies ..and tagged your Yahoo ID as "ADULT" ..don't be suprised if you receive a notification like this one :: --------------------------------------… --------------------------------------… From: Yahoo! [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: An important notice about your Yahoo! Profiles photo CONDENSED E-MAIL MESSAGE HEADER Return-Path: <[email protected]… Delivered-To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]… From: =?ISO-8859-1?q?Yahoo!?= <[email protected]> We're making some changes that will affect one of your Yahoo! profiles. After April 9, 2008, mature content will not be permitted within Yahoo! Profiles. In accordance with this new policy, users will no longer be able to designate an "adult profile," and mature content will be removed. The profile for the Yahoo! ID lisaskirts_sanfranciscobay is marked "adult." The picture associated with this profile will be removed and deleted on April 9, 2008 We encourage you to upload a new profile photo on that date that complies with the Yahoo! :: Terms of Service and Community Guidelines :: Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo!. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of Web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 --------------------------------------… --------------------------------------… While the e-mail headers have undenyably been spoofed so as to be believable, the content is pure fabrication; one part windup, one part subtle phishing ..in my opinion, highly suspect. WHO IS? one.yahoo-email.com Global Crossing 14605 South 50th Street Phoenix, AZ 85044-6471 [email protected] --------------------------------------… --------------------------------------… Just my two cents worth on the subject. LisaSkirts®

lisaskirts_sanfranciscobay

http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/2008/03/27/clarification-about-the-yahoo-profiles-photo-announcement this should help a little. Just make sure that the entire link gets posted into your browser Ed

mymantoy999

If this is real then it's funny that a company that once would not remove user created chatrooms with names like "sick men 4 preteen"(one of the reasons their user created rooms were altogether removed) would now ban adult profiles altogether. Yahoo used to be one of the coolest sites around, and I agree with adult content being marked as such but this, if real, is ridiculous!

hardcore_humiliatrix

Yahoo is deleting adult content profile period. The issue at stake here is not the picture because they not longer offer you the possibility of editing picturesand saving the profile. Now the goal is to erase the profile and the whole adult category watering down the Yahoo content to the minimum required age: 13. Is this indicative of a change in marketing? Yahoo is a "all for profit" company and Adults are a becoming a harder market. Will Yahoo now target young people? If yes, that will explain why Yahoo has decided to erase the adult content profiles, not to make it more secure, but rather to fully approach a market that right now is distant, due to high amount of adult profiles. Eliminating Adult content Yahoo will feel free to approach youngsters claiming to be a clean are, clean sexually yes, obviously, but ethically I doubt it. Remember that Yahoo sold Human right activist to the Chinese goverment in exchange of access to the Chinese market for instance, not to mention the privacy issues in our country.

X Y

Yes. Yahoo is removing the pictures from profiles marked adult, regardless of the image. They are not deleting the entire profile though.

Jamie G

It's probably a hoax. Grownups sometimes have more knowledge than kids that can help kids with the experiences they have had.Why delete?

eric nathan

Looking to be real...Soon this will be a kiddie site. Then we shall see how much money they will spend?!?!? Strongly feel that Yahoo ADULT Groups will go away very soon. Groups owners need to start ramping up their own sites and building a member list for themselfs. We did this and now have profiles, forums and live chat for our members. http://www.JPJustParties.com Check out this Blog Post from yahoo http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/2008/03/27/clarification-about-the-yahoo-profiles-photo-announcement/

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