Jascon Scott of Archive Team, which is involved in preserving internet history was quite critical of Verizon and blamed it of craven complacency while speaking to BuzzFeed News. The Archive Team has already mirrored Yahoo Answers. And every move they've been doing has been the most craven corporate, reduced liability, reduced exposure move that they can do We don't trust anything that Yahoo owns, period.
Written by. Published on Apr 06, , pm. Last chance. Archive Team. A view of Yahoo's website in Share Now:. A screenshot of a question on Yahoo Answers. The largest data breach in history was bigger than we thought.
Yahoo confirms hack of million user accounts. Hello, goodbye: When execs make a quick exit. Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the new data war. How to oust a corporate board member. Also Included in. Tags in this Story. Like any truly stupid thing, Yahoo Answers, which has been owned by Verizon since , was many things rolled into one.
It was the Library of Alexandria for earnest seekers of knowledge, like those who sought to learn how girl get pragnent. It was an extremely cunning ploy for SEO traffic, but also a half-baked social platform where users could while away the hours answering questions about social etiquette and advice.
Considering that Section , legislation that protects platforms like Yahoo and Facebook from being held legally liable for content posted by users, is currently up for debate, Verizon may have looked at the morass of Yahoo Answers and opted to save itself a headache.
Yahoo has a long and glorious history of shutting down huge pieces of itself, like a feral fox gnawing off various limbs from a trap in its efforts to maintain relevance and cut costs. In , Yahoo shut down Geocities, one of the biggest repositories of Y2K-era internet culture.
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