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。