Update: Never do a hot take on a cold story. As part of the new corporate merger of Yahoo and Aol under the Oath brand, it looks like Yahoo accounts will no..
Update: Never do a hot take on a cold story.
As part of the new corporate merger of Yahoo and Aol under the Oath brand, it looks like Yahoo accounts will no longer be accessible through AT&T email addresses (or those of any A&T subsidiaries) .
The move provoked some uproar among net neutrality advocates, but it seems to be less about creating walled gardens and more about cleaning up prior commitments and pre-existing partnerships.
While there is a level of inconvenience for AT&T customers, this is less about net neutrality and more about unwinding those corporate deals.
Basically, while annoying, this seems like it’s undoing a previous Yahoo deal with AT&T where the AT&T domains served as quasi-Yahoo accounts — which would include Tumblr.
AT&T also informed its users about the change with a statement below.
In a notice that was posted online Sunday, Tumblr advised its users that:
Affected customers will have to update their email addresses to something with a different domain.
For anyone affected, here’s how to change an email address to something more suitable to Oath:
Oath has not responded to a request for comment.
