# Yahoo Mail 5 Hacker News commenters recommended Yahoo Mail and 15 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 29 years (3 owners). **Verdict:** Free web email with a long history, called more reliable than Proton by some; critics report lost mail, spam filtering trouble and a poor browser experience with ads. ## Why people recommend it - More reliable record than Proton (2 comments): "something like Proton, Yahoo, or Gmail is probably better" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037088)) "At least Yahoo has way better record than Proton." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274577)) ## What people warn about - Lost old mail and emails (3 comments): "They had a catastrophe and lost some people's mail. I never got such an email, but one time I looked, and it lost all of my emails before 2000." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573841)) "they've silently lost all my mail from 1990s" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518155)) "i too lost all my yahoo emails. sad." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695113)) - Spam filtering blocks legitimate mail (2 comments): "even a single "mark as spam" report by any of their email users would blackhole the entire email for ALL of their users" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790932)) "their spam filtering has gone to absolute shit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993402)) - Poor browser experience and login issues (2 comments): "the few times I've had to use yahoo mail from a browser without an ad blocker, it was an unbelievably bad experience" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081378)) "Web browser visiting Yahoo Mail is poorly comparing your external IPv6 with your home's IPv4 and rejecting your login." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765488)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Gmail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gmail.md): 295 recommend - [mailbox.org email](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mailbox-org.md): 45 recommend - [Zoho Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zoho-mail.md): 29 recommend - [iCloud Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icloud-mail.md): 24 recommend - [HEY email by Basecamp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hey-email.md): 23 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://mail.yahoo.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Yahoo Mail", https://hackerapproved.com/p/yahoo-mail/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).