Latest Update: How Can You Opt out of Yahoo’s Mail Scanning Process?

Are you using Yahoo E-mail Account? Or using your Yahoo Account for online shopping? Then this news is definitely for you to listen up. We all are hearing the news that Yahoo Mail is scanning your inbox for receipts and this news report is according to Wall Street Journal.

Oath, the Verizon Owned Company which undertook Yahoo Web Mail in the year 2017 is scanning your inbox for receipts. And Yahoo is doing this to sell the users data to the advertisers. They are using insights on whether the user is a frequent flier, self employed along with other qualities gleaned from retail emails Yahoo receives. Well, this practice is not new for Yahoo and its users as they have noticed this that Oath mentioned in its updated privacy policy in April that is has leverage to read its users emails. So, if you wish to opt out of scanning process of Yahoo you can follow below steps and make yourself out of the league. In case you feel that you are not opted out or bearing problems in performing the steps you can avail our assistance at Yahoo Customer Phone Number we will help you to be out of scanning process of the Yahoo.

Follow the steps to be out of Yahoo Scanning Process:

  •         Open a web browser
  •         Now, log in to your Yahoo Account
  •         Head over to the “Ad Interest Manager Page”
  •         You will see an option “Your Advertising Choices”
  •         Here select “Opt Out”
  •         This page in not under settings which makes it difficult to find
  •         Now click “On Yahoo”
  •         Here select “Opt out yet again”
  •         This will disable personalization based on your interests
  •         Make sure that you have opt out of both, because clicking the blue button once still makes Yahoo to scan your email.

  • Note:  If you are a premium Yahoo Mail user, you would still need to opt out manually to prevent your data from being scanned.


Well, in 2017 Google said that Yahoo would no longer scan users e-mail accounts for advertising agenda. And Microsoft replied that it has never done so, and it also famously called out of Google in 2013 with an ad warning that users emails not to be “Scroogled”. But it does not mean that companies are not scanning your email for other purposes like to block virus. Hopefully you opt out from Yahoo Scanning but in case you require assistance please connect to Yahoo HelplineNumber. We are a third party assistance that hear and solve our users query.

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