I have a Smugmug website and they've done a good job of maintaining it over the last nine years. They also have actual humans working on their help desk. I use Flickr to post to this forum, so I want that to continue to function well - Smugmug will be a good consolidation.
Logging in to Flickr recently, I've been prompted to agree to new terms of service from "Oath", which I think is now out of the picture? Curious to see what happens with this, I'm not agreeing to new terms of service till things settle in a bit.
I've been getting the same notifications when signing into my Yahoo mail account but have put off agreeing until things settle down. Suspiciously, the new Oath terms appeared shortly after Zuckerberg appeared before Congress and I suspect it is an attempt to short circuit industry regulations which are coming. No such terms have appeared on my yahoo small business website login - yet.
Yesterday I received a long email from Yahoo saying that eventually you will have to agree with the terms.
Thomas
Hope they don't intend to get rich selling printing services to their new flickr customers. I still think printing is in decline.
I'm guessing it might be better than a Verizon or Oath type big data advertising conglomerate.
What idiot chose 'Oath' as the name of a company.
I immediately distrust it.
And I have no idea what it is.
I'm even scared to Google it!
Soon we won't need Darkrooms as the whole planet will be Dark.
Last edited by Tin Can; 22-Apr-2018 at 12:24.
Flickr was bought by Yahoo (around 2005, I think). It was part of the deal when Verizon bought Yahoo recently. 'Oath' is the name of the Verizon entity operating the items from the Yahoo portfolio. On balance, I'm probably happier that Flickr is leaving the Verizon house, rather than staying.
[Since many people probably said something along the lines of 'Oh ____' to the Yahoo sale, maybe 'Oath' was a tacit recognition of that response 8-)]
I just hope it doesn't go the Photobucket route, free for years, then overnight, $400 per year, wiping the images from many threads here and across the internet.
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