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		jedberg on April 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 Alexa is a terrible way to compare traffic on websites. Their data is biased towards people who run Windows and are willing to run their toolbar. I know for sure that it has always massively undercounted reddit traffic for example but I'll bet it is fairly accurate for Yahoo, since "runs Windows and random toolbars" is their target audience.

oblio on April 5, 2021 [–]

While I agree with your assessment, some data is better than no data.

Plus my main point was that Yahoo is still a huge site. Maybe not in our circles, but a lot of people use it.

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