之前发布了一篇博文，介绍了停用flickr的方法，今天说如何删除yahoo帐号的方法，我并不是为了发布资源，而去注册个帐号然后再去删除，只是之前申请了帐号，后来不想用或者换了帐号，所以再去删除之前的帐号，我想有很多人和我的想法相同。这里所说的yahoo帐号，是yahoo国际，也就是雅虎美国，以com结尾的雅虎站，并不是雅虎中国，日本等等。

老规矩，能不能删除帐号，先从yahoo help找官方告知：

Closing your Yahoo account

We’re sorry to see you go, but if you’ve chosen to close your account we’ll show you how.

Important:

You’ll need your current password to close your account. If you don’t remember it, first use the Yahoo Password Helper to recover it.
We recommend using a desktop or laptop computer. The web browsers on some mobile devices may not load all pages properly.

Visit the Terminating your Yahoo account page.
Read through the “Before continuing, please consider the following information” section.
Confirm your password in the field provided.
Enter the CAPTCHA code.
Click Terminate this Account.

如果你需要备份目前这个帐号的数据，可以到这里，先备份，然后再删除帐号，删除后，yahoo是无法保证可以恢复帐号数据。

Download your Yahoo account data

If you’re considering closing your Yahoo account, you can download and save some of it’s information before doing so.

Important: You’ll need to sign in to your account to download any of its details. Once a Yahoo account is closed, we cannot recover its contents or restore access to it.

Saving your information

+ Yahoo Mail

Emails – Save your emails and attachments to your computer.
Mail IMs – Save your Messenger in Mail conversation history to a text file or Word document.
Set up IMAP – Set up IMAP to access your Yahoo Mail with another email program on your computer or mobile device.
Set up POP mail – Use POP to receive your emails in another email program.

+ Yahoo Contacts and Calendar

Export your Yahoo Contacts and save them to your computer as a backup.
Export Yahoo Calendar to an iCalendar (ICS) file format, then import it into another calendar program.

+ Yahoo Groups

Save your Yahoo Groups photos and files to your computer.

+ Yahoo Messenger

Click your version of Messenger to learn how to save its Conversation History:

在你解决了数据备份的事情后，就可以删除帐号：

1.我没有在yahoo个人资料也找到删除帐号的链接，所以我们可以通过yahoo help给出的链接来直接结束yahoo帐号。通过www.yahoo.com右上角登录你的yahoo帐号，然后在地址栏中输入：https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user 回车。

2.确认你的账户信息，输入密码，再输入漂浮的验证码，然后点击“Terminate this Account”

3.因为担心账户被恶意删除，所以yahoo帐号将在90天内从yahoo数据库中删除。

如果你紧接着登录刚才删除了的帐号，会提示，你的账户已被删除，可以通过“Re-activate”来恢复帐号，但是邮件可能已被清空，这里不再做无聊的恢复测试。90天以后，我想一切都是浮云。