I just wanted to hustle and make some side cash. Instead, I unearthed a digital fossil from the Yahoo era.

While casually trying to register as a driver on a very famous Southeast Asian super-app (let’s call it HohoJEk™ for legal reasons), I used my own phone number — a number I’ve owned for years.

The app politely told me: “This number is already registered.”

Which is weird, because:

• I’ve never signed up as a driver.
• I don’t own a motorbike.
• I barely drive a shopping cart straight.

Even better — it showed me part of the previous driver’s data: their first name and a Yahoo email alias.

Yes, in the year of our Lord 2025. Yahoo. Like it’s still 2007.

Upon entering my phone number during registration, the app tried to be helpful by saying something like:

"Hi Alibaba! We found an existing driver account with this number."
Email: a***@yahoo.com

I know I’m not Ali or Alibaba. And I sure as hell don’t use Yahoo. So how do they still have this?