Starting a few days ago, Yahoo began intercepting iPhone traffic to Yahoo.com, sending it instead to a Yahoo mobile site. Annoying, and made even worse as Yahoo provides no apparent opt-out – I can’t find a link I can click that will reset my Yahoo.com preferences back to the regular Yahoo homepage.
With a little searching, I was able to find a solution to this problem. If you want to see the regular Yahoo homepage on an iPhone, use the following URL:
http://yahoo.com/?a
A little annoying to remember, but certainly better than having to use the mobile site. Yahoo, please remember that part of the reason I bought an iPhone is so I could browse regular websites. Unless your product is as good as Facebook for the iPhone (and they provide an opt-out), I’m likely not interested in using a stripped-down mobile version. Hopefully Yahoo will listen to its customers and offer an easy opt-out.
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
Nice find Fred – I often times prefer the regular site to the mobile version on my iphone.