Investors are conflicted: on the one hand, Yahoo had a data breach that will cost them trust, but on the other hand, investors are surprised to hear there are still 500 million Yahoo users.
LinkedIn is like dallisgrass. pesky stuff to get rid of.
Twitter did this to me right after their last not-so-great quarterly report came out: sent an email saying they have noticed "suspicious activity on my Twitter account and have suspended it. Click this link to reset your password." Which is kinda funny because I never posted one thing to my Twitter account. So locking it for me was the next best thing to deleting it.
When I got the LinkedIn breach email, I too just deleted my account there. Wasn't worth the fretting about security problems.
Some hacker might have my password, hopefully they don't pull Aaron Rodgers from my line up this week.
EDIT: just for clarification, this replaces the password entirely. So I never enter a password on the site.
Fortunately iCloud Keychain means my current Y! password is random as hell and not reused anywhere, but I'm slightly nervous wondering what the hell password I had in 2014 or 2012 or whenever this stupid leak happened. :/
Consider that third-party tracking still places Yahoo as one of the top trafficked websites in the world, with only Google, Baidu, and Facebook higher.
Full disclosure: I work for Yahoo.
Naturally, there are areas where we know the algorithms are not translating the inputs to real users with 100% fidelity, but we know that the discount is relatively minor, not nearly as substantial as youre suggesting.
Multiple counter-parties had their teams diligence our user figures and associated algorithms and found them to be generally accurate representations.
Unless you're using a different definition of "active, monthly user" that deviates from the industry norms?
Okay that's the disconnect. Monthly uniques typically count is unique accesses of a web page by non-bots / spam. This is how I've seen it defined in every analytics software package I've ever used. Monthly active users is a vastly different concept as it implies repeat access within the month.
Though judging by the downvotes on my parent comment I'm guessing my thinking of the terms is NOT standard? Not going to lie I'm a bit confused around this. I'm going to have to look into it more.
Unique visitors versus active accounts.