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.
Nice find Fred – I often times prefer the regular site to the mobile version on my iphone.