YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have agreed to purchase Delicious from Yahoo. Hurley and Chen’s company, AVOS, will be the new owner of the service, and Yahoo has promised to keep Delicious up and working until about July, when user information is then turned over to AVOS. What AVOS plans to do with Delicious is up in the air, but it’s doubtful they’ll make many changes immediately. Yahoo says they’ll turn over public and private bookmarks and user information to AVOS when the change is complete and AVOS will re-launch Delicious shortly after.
Users who don’t want their data moved or shared with another party will have the ability to opt out. Yahoo will present each user with AVOS’ terms of service prior to the changeover, and users who don’t agree will not be able to access their bookmarks or use the service, but AVOS won’t have access to their data either.
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