2. Using Yahoo mail and Yahoo messenger might be the first thing many of us
did on the internet, but this doesn’t mean you have to keep on using Yahoo as
a souvenir despite its constant breach of privacy and its obsolete services. You
may want to delete Yahoo account because
Lack of regular update to meet up the expectation of the customers.
Frequent breach of data security policy. It is in the news that Former
employees of Yahoo confessed that the data breach of Yahoo had affected not
less than 2.5 billion accounts.
You have multiple Yahoo account, and you have decided to keep only one
account active.
Availability of multiple better substitutes like Gmail, Outlook, etc.
3. How to delete Yahoo account
permanently?
Step 1: Go to Yahoo Account
Termination page.
Step 2: Enter the Yahoo Id which
you want to delete and then click
on “Next”.
4. Step 3: Provide the
password associated with
account that you have just
entered. If you have
forgotten the password to
your account, you should try
and recover the Yahoo
password first.
5. Step 4: Yahoo! will show all the things
that you will lose once you delete Yahoo
account. If you still want to delete Yahoo
account, click on “Continue Deleting my
Account.” In case you changed your
mind after reading the consequences of
deleting Yahoo account and don’t want
to delete it click on “Cancel”.
6. Step 5: Re-enter the email
address just to confirm and then
click on “Yes, terminate this
account”.
Step 6: A successful message will
be displayed. Click on “Sounds
Good” and it will forward you to
Yahoo home page.
7. Yahoo will take 40 days to delete your account
permanently. It may take longer if you are registered in
Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and Taiwan. Before the
expiry of this period, your account is just temporarily
deactivated, and you can return back in just by logging
in with the old email and password.
So, consider these consequences before you mover
further to delete Yahoo account permanently.
8. Consequences of deleting Yahoo
Account
No access to products and services of Yahoo like Yahoo mail,
Flickr account, Tumblr account, etc.
Your Yahoo email will be available for anyone to grab. You
can’t get that email ID back if you want to return to Yahoo
later.
You’ll lose all data including emails, chat history, photos in
Flickr, contacts, etc. So, download all data that you might
require before you delete your account.
Even your paid services of Yahoo will become inaccessible,
and you are not going to get any refund.