Posted by In pursuit of transformation or rather, ease of use, Yahoo has just revamped their email application. They introduced a new feature called Yahoo Account Key. How does this work? It basically links your account to a mobile phone. From there, you’ll be notified through push notifications to approve any new login.
Your Yahoo account is linked to a mobile device, like a smartphone. When you attempt to login from a PC, Yahoo automatically discerns that you’ve already attached your account to a mobile phone. It then send a push notification to your device, through which you can approve or deny the login.
The app itself is generally easier to use and faster. There’s also added support for other email accounts like Outlook, Hotmail, and AOL. (No Gmail for now.)
That’s not all, the new app connects to your social networks, and grabs current pictures of your contacts. This is shown alongside your messages. Another new feature is the ability to swipe away messages for deleting or marking as unread.
good move, but it should be available as optional 2FA, not just as a substitute for a password
While this sounds and appear innovative, it actually looks to me like they are trying too hard though.
The process of approving on a mobile device linked to the account like it was described above seems longer to me that just inputting the damn password and getting it over with anyway.
Maybe when I experience it sha, I may have a different opinion.
you misunderstand, once you login and store the account credentials on your mobile device, you’ll get push notifications for subsequent login attempts on a computer. there’s no extra verification required, obvious flaw is anyone with your smartphone/tab would be able to access your Y! account, that’s why I’d prefer if this was available as 2FA
2 much Greek.. What would d approval require? Credit or internet?
Seems to me you still end up going through as much as simply typing in your password..
…all I’m saying!!!
But too early to judge without first experiencing the process anyway.
By the way, what’s yahoo active customer base like now? Gmail must have done injustice to it ooo
They should try resolve their yahoomail not being accessible on Opera. And the snail loading speed of their website. That’s what they need.
those are third world problems, hardly a priority for peoppe with smartphones and decent internet access which this is aimed at
Internet access obviously, the authentication is supposed to be delivered as a push notification
Cumbersome… Jes lemme type my password jare
Lol… 3rd world Na world all the same… Abi if Na like that make them waka comot we 3rd world na
lol, just saying. this isn’t aimed at people who try to access yahoomail through Opera
Including android too. Its just too slow. And I’m sure you know there is Opera on desktop. Even on Mozilla. And like you aptly said… Its all third world prob
well this is aimed at people with smart mobile devices, you’d have to have the Yahoo app installed on your device, that’s how you add the account to the device. as per Opera and Mozilla, they’re semi obsolete Chrome and even Internet Explorer are better and don’t have any problems accessing/loading the Yahoo site
First time I’m hearing someone describing Chrome and Monzilla as obsolete while venerating Explorer. Explorer of all browsers! It is well. Experience differs sha
you’ve obviously not used IE recently, and i didn’t say Chrome was obsolete
People trying different things to sha try and stay afloat… Don’t think this idea will float tho..