Yahoo Mail Gets Pricier
from the free-to-fee dept
Not at all surprising, but the latest "give us some damn money" news out of Yahoo! is that you now have to pay to forward your mail out of Yahoo mail. While I understand why they're doing this, it does seem that Yahoo is adding these little subscription fees here and there for random features of their site. Luckily, I don't use Yahoo for very much, but if I were a big time user, I think it would piss me off that every two weeks or so they pick one more tiny feature to drag some money out of me. If Yahoo wants to charge people money, why not come out with a comprehensive subscription plan, rather than just nickeling and diming their users on each of the various services they offer? It's as if they're trying to sneak these fees past their users.
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