source: https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007729788-Heads-up-for-AT-T-customers
In other words, if you’re using an ATT email for your Tumblr account, you need to go change your email or you will pretty much be…
banned
Well this sucks but I don’t want it catching people by surprise so signal boost I guess
what the actual fuck
THIS IS REAL.
IF THIS AFFECTS YOU, GET A GMAIL ACCOUNT OR SOMETHING AND SET IT AS YOUR EMAIL FOR YOUR TUMBLR PREFS RIGHT AWAY. YOU HAVE TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THURSDAY TO DO SO OR YOU LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR TUMBLR.
A little bit of follow up.
1. This is real, get a freebie email account to use.
2. This is not exactly a “Net Neutrality” issue. This article at Tech Crunch goes into more detail, but it has a lot more to do with disentangling old partnerships that are no longer valid. Those email domains, due to being partnered with Yahoo were granted automatic access to some Yahoo-owned platforms because of the AT&T partnership. this appears to be a side effect of disentangling user databases that weren’t designed to split up cleanly if the Yahoo/AT&T partnership ended – which it has. If anything, this is more a warning about side effects of attempting to create a not-quite-monopoly and it ending. Users are running into an inconvenience because of a messy merging of company proprietary data that now (I assume for legal reasons) must be separated. Rather than a cse of emails being blocked because of a violation of anti-competition practices (which is what it looks like on the surface) it’s actually the result of a changed business deal where an attempt to grow a user base by preventing the need to create new accounts has created a logistics problem. It shouldn’t have happened, but sometimes databases and code aren’t designed to work the way we would like them to, because whomever coded/maintained them never considered this use case..
3. More detail on the change and transferring affected Yahoo accoiunts from AT&T [link]
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