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I don't want to just hide my Pulse profile. I want to get rid of it. Is there a way?
Like a lot of other Yahoo email users, I started getting a large number unsolicited email invitations to "connect" on Yahoo. I thought it was pure SPAM. Then I looked a little closer and realized I had a "Pulse" profile I didn't know I had, and that my privacy settings had been set to make me visible to all the idiots trying to connect to me. This was done without my approval or permission. This was a violation of my privacy. I am outraged. I have already gone to this fool "Pulse" account and made my profile there invisible. But I want to do more. I want to get rid of the Pulse profile altogether while keeping my Yahoo email profile. I want to be able to set my email profile settings without making the same changes in some inane Pulse profile that I did not want in the first place. Is there a way to delete the Pulse profile but keep the email profile?
Yahoo had no business doing this to me or anyone else without asking permission. I hope the fools who sanctioned this "service" are summarily terminated for exposing us to identity thieves this way.
My hidden avatar on this message is a case in point. By hiding my identity on Pulse, I made my avatar invisible here in Yahoo Answers. Nonsense. The two services should not have been linked in this way. DUMP PULSE.
So how do I DUMP PULSE and keep my email profile?
2 Answers
- LoneStarLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I don't believe you can dump the Pulse page (unfortunately)-----BUT you can STOP those wanting to connect with you.
One suggestion I found---(from the Yahoo Answer Team)--- that seems to work.
Mouse over your Hi Name (top left), and click on "Profile" to open your Pulse page.
On that page click on "settings" (top right).
Scroll to "Notifications" and click on "manage email notifications".
Then check the "NO boxes on the Invites". (all of them)
Click "Done".
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You don't have to hide your profile---just don't fill out any of the info lines.
You probably don't want to "share" updates either (another invasion of privacy).
On the Pulse page>>>>click the "Settings" tab>>>>then click on "manage updates" and UNCHECK "share my updates">>>> and "save" it.
- 1 decade ago
Hi,
You can't dump YPulse as it's part of the Account information but on that you can choose not to have connections with anyone and you need to go into Show all Yahoo Connections and select No One for each of them.
Click Save & your done.
You can also hide your profile from others by clicking the "Hide my Profile" on the same page as well.
Trust this information helps you!
