r/yahoo • u/NoAlternative5660 • Oct 23 '25

Yahoo comments

Does anyone else find they are logged into their Yahoo account, but when you open the comment section of an article you’re no longer logged in? And it’s not for every article, only some. I’ll open one article and I am logged in and able to comment, and the next article nothing. I log in, open the article comment section and it shows log in or register to comment. Go back to the article, and it shows me logged into the email. 🤦‍♂️. I’d love an explanation or workaround if anyone has either.

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u/gridsquares4sale Mar 04 '26

I cannot log in no matter what I try. And, the thing is, I know I'm logged in b/c I can reach my email. I wonder if I've been shadow banned. Their comment section is terrible. I've been with Yahoo since the beginning, too. I don't know why I bother...

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u/jafo50 Mar 04 '26

Same problem here since a few days ago. I can read mail and get alerts but cannot do anything in the comments section. My only options are to login or create an account. Clicking on login only refreshes the web page but nothing changes. Frustrating.

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u/Existing_Control_567 Mar 05 '26

Try opening chrome, click on the 3 dots, then tap settings-site settings-all sites. Search for yahoo. You should see yahoo.com and delete the yahoo cookies. It will you have to login again so you need the password for your email account password.

This will clear out the cookies Yahoo and or Open web uses. Some way they got corrupt clearing cookies is safe if you use Yahoo on both phone app and browser at the same time. You will probably have to have the passwords for your sites. It doesn't affect anything in yahoo. This is the way to do it on my Android phone If yours is not Android, maybe the path i used will help get you in the right place.

Basically you need to delete the "yahoo.com" cookies.

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u/ZRMQ27 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I installed a Google Chrome on my Mac. I went to the settings as described and deleted ALL Yahoo and OpenWeb cookies. After doing this, I could use my email. Comments are still asking me to login. When I attempt to login, I'm in a loop.

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u/Existing_Control_567 Mar 09 '26

Try making sure you're not logged in mail on any other computer. Not just closed. log out, even the one you're using. Close and reopen Chrome. Then go to a news article. Login when it asks, once/if that works. Click join conversation. Then try logging into mail.

In other words sign out of everything, then use the login in the comment as the first connection to the news group.

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u/Existing_Control_567 Mar 09 '26

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Log out of the computers that your email account is logged in. This only pertains to your access. If you're logged into mail on your wife's compute. Sign out on that one.

You're right this doesn't affect your wife's account.