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Reporting Yahoo! for form creation abuse

Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by hotlou in Work

A spammer added my email address to a Yahoo! group today. In the email notification, there was a message about Yahoo! caring about my privacy with a link to report abuse on Yahoo!

Here’s a screenshot of the form in case you don’t want to visit Yahoo.com (I don’t blame you).

Yahoo!'s report abuse form

By comparison, here are the forms to report spam on Facebook and Twitter:

Reporting spam on Twitter

Reporting spam on Facebook

A couple of clicks and keystrokes. Done.

In a crazier comparison, it’s actually EASIER for me to complete a financial transaction INCLUDING my credit card on PayPal or Amazon than it is to report abuse on Yahoo! Ugh.

With that, I’m officially reporting form creation abuse on Yahoo! for using an unnecessarily complex, lengthy, and captcha’d form for something that should be EXTREMELY frictionless.

If you’d like to report similar abuse, please use the form below. Alert readers will note the easy-to-use form from the “report abuse” link beneath it.