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Can you suggest a replacement for the MyYahoo HomePage ?

Asked by LuckyGuy (43879points) 12 hours ago

I have been using MyYahoo’s Homepage as my start page for years. I customized it to show headlines and stories from various news sources as well as financial, science, and weather information. I am not interested in Entertainment, Lifestyle, TV, etc. so they do not display.
Unfortunately, all good things must end and Yahoo decided to cancel the Homepage and replace it with “More Of What I Want to Know.”

Do you use a Homepage? Can you please suggest a replacement for it?

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smudges's avatar

I use Bing. Every day there’s a new photo and you can download it and use it for your screenshot. Today is red fisherman’s cabins in Norway. Like others, you can use settings to personalize your page.

The think I like most, and which caused me to switch to Bing, is that there’s not a lot of headlines jumping out at you, it’s just the photo. Headlines can trigger me so I really appreciate a homepage that doesn’t do that.

From that page, I click on the + sign to open Microsoft Edge and that’s where I set up the topics I like. Again, there’s no ads.

Zaku's avatar

I mean, I use a blank page, because I don’t want to be fed content by anyone.

If I did want that, it’d likely be something like:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
https://www.newsandguts.com/
https://environmentamerica.org/latest/
https://www.csis.org/

You could also look at this site for ideas: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com

janbb's avatar

I’m on Windows and I just always have my regular tabs open – no home page.

Zaku's avatar

@janbb Oh, yeah, that too. I tend to keep hundreds of tabs open, and have the browsers set to restore previous session, so I only see the “Home” page when I open a new window, so I want that blank or else I’d be distracting myself even more every time I went to look for something in a new tab.

Forever_Free's avatar

Washington Post is my start page.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I think @LuckyGuy is seeking more of a customizable, malleable option where he can control what he wants, as opposed to a replacement like Wash Post or some of the other ones.

@zaku has the right idea- you can make your own (local) HTML pages and then add as desired.

A long long time ago, Google had a similar ‘personal home’ page like Yahoo, but that went away 15 years ago.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

I just carefully manage my bookmarks

Caravanfan's avatar

I just use Duck.com as my start page

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