Yahoo Mail Is Removing an Essential Feature for Free Users

The popularity of Yahoo Mail has dropped substantially in the last few years, and the hacking scandals that the service has been involved in certainly played a key role in its collapse.

And yet, there still are people out there using Yahoo Mail, and by the looks of things, parent company Verizon is about to let more of them go due to a strange decision.

Yahoo Mail will no longer allow users with free accounts to forward emails to another account, with the company explaining that paying customers will be the only ones provided with such functionality.

In other words, if you receive an email in your Yahoo Mail inbox, you won’t be able to forward it to someone else unless you’re a paying customer.

The change will come into effect on January 1, Verizon announced this week.

“If your free Yahoo Mail account is set up to automatically forward emails to a third party inbox such as Gmail, those emails will stop being delivered to the third party address on January 1, 202...