More and Less Secure sign ins

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Barkley Hound
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More and Less Secure sign ins

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Yahoo mail now requires email programs to use "more secure sign in". It has an option to allow the use of a "less secure sign in" but it constantly nags you about using it. Why does it consider Thunderbird of having a less secure sign in? It also considers Outlook of having a less secure sign in.
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tanstaafl
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I don't see the nagging since I rarely login to yahoo webmail. My impression is that Yahoo is trying to pass the buck (after over a billion accounts were hacked in the largest data breach in history) and promote Yahoo's software (their app and webmail) rather than a email client.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... s-breached
isaacschemm
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Re: More and Less Secure sign ins

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Other people are running into this too: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Thunderb ... -p/1365704
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