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BT Yahoo Homepage Changed

dealsearcher
dealsearcher Posts: 756 Forumite
in Broadband & internet access
Everyone who used BT will have had their homepage changed to BT.com. I used to get financial information and relatively serious news on my homepage. I now get news on celebrities, Eastenders and the like. Anyone else noticed this?

I have complained to BT and await their reply. Probably will be platitudes about their wonderful service, customer surveys, etc. etc..

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  • brewerdave
    brewerdave Posts: 8,921 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Just set up your own preferred home page in the browser you are using?
    I have mine pointing to a BBC News front page.
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 16 October 2013 at 7:03AM
    Because BT is terminating it's relationship with Yahoo-announced some time ago.
    http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44789/?s_cid=con_FURL_email_newemail
    BT Mail will be provided by Critical Path.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • mattyprice4004
    mattyprice4004 Posts: 7,492 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    dealsearcher wrote: »
    Everyone who used BT will have had their homepage changed to BT.com. I used to get financial information and relatively serious news on my homepage. I now get news on celebrities, Eastenders and the like. Anyone else noticed this?

    I have complained to BT and await their reply. Probably will be platitudes about their wonderful service, customer surveys, etc. etc..

    It's their homepage, they can display any content they wish.
    When I worked for an ISP we moved an advert and had lots of complaints. It was an advert, people just couldn't deal with it being in the opposite corner of the screen. :)
  • WTFH
    WTFH Posts: 2,266 Forumite
    I know this is a bit of SBO, but if you liked the BTYahoo home page, but you don't like the BT one, have you tried the Yahoo one to see if it's got all those things you like?

    http://uk.yahoo.com/
    1. Have you tried to Google the answer?
    2. If you were in the other person's shoes, how would you react?
    3. Do you want a quick answer or better understanding?
  • dealsearcher
    dealsearcher Posts: 756 Forumite
    Thanks for the replies. I have changed my home page but was a little annoyed that BT just stopped the BT Yahoo one and transferred me to their page. The BT.com page is pretty trashy in it's content.
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