{"id":730,"date":"2017-04-09T18:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2017-04-09T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:22:45","slug":"i-forgot-my-yahoo-password-you-cant-imagine-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"I Forgot My Yahoo Password! You can’t imagine what happened next."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Verizon now owns Yahoo, and all of a sudden when I went\u00a0to log in today, because I signed up for newsletter, my password at Yahoo didn’t work. This is exactly what used to happen at the Verizon website when I had my phone and internet accounts there. The passwords never worked.<\/p>\n

So, I went to reset the Yahoo password today, thinking that maybe I changed the password after last summer’s revelation that a billion Yahoo accounts has been compromised, and then didn’t write down the new one. That would explain the problem.<\/p>\n

I told Yahoo to reset my password and was taken to a Verizon screen, which asked for my user name and zip code. I entered it, clicked and went\u00a0to this page:<\/p>\n

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Yes, Verizon is going to mail me a temporary password by US Mail. That’s so 20th Century.<\/p>\n

What else can you do? I’m supposed to be confirming my email address for a newsletter. I click the button and am taken to this page:<\/p>\n

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They’re acting as if I’m a Fios customer. I’m not. I’m a Yahoo customer, who will be getting his password reset by US Mail! (That’s where the exclamation mark went.)<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Verizon now owns Yahoo, and all of a sudden when I went\u00a0to log in today, because I signed up for newsletter, my password at Yahoo didn’t work. This is exactly what used to happen at the Verizon website when I had my phone and internet accounts there. The passwords never worked. So, I went … Continue reading I Forgot My Yahoo Password! You can’t imagine what happened next.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critique","category-memoir","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}