AOL App Password no longer working

Searching the forums it appears the creation of AOL App Passwords is an issue that started in June of 2022. I just got off the phone with AOL tech support and was told I needed to purchase a service from them at $29.99/mth to get further tech support. I'm getting the 'sorry this feature is not available right now" when I try and generate an App Password. Does anyone know if they just dropped this support altogether or should I expect that we'll get this ability somewhere down the road?

Posted on Sep 30, 2022 9:01 AM

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Oct 15, 2022 3:20 PM in response to Mike_Shelby

Here's an interesting take on why: AOL app password GENERATOR no longer work… - Apple Community


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Here's what I think. Apollo Global Management purchased Yahoo and AOL (Verizon) Sept 2021. By May 2022 people started complaining that they couldn't generate AOL app passwords. It is my guess that Apollo wants to make a profit from their email users by pushing users to their web server (in other words, make you go to Yahoo or AOL) to access email. That way, you'll have to look at the ads. And that way, they make money. Otherwise, there is no profit in maintaining the Yahoo/Verizon emails.

Here's a write up from the ATT / Yahoo perspective. https://tinyurl.com/yc5p55a7 Same thing happened to Yahoo users. Now it's us Verizon users who not get emails forwarded to their ISP provider (and thus into Outlook or Thunderbird).

It is just so very painful so have to change your email after 25 years. Mine was clean and simply.

J

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