I’ve long been tired of the stupidity of some of the ads on the Yahoo mail page; now they’ve served a weight loss product ad that is downright revolting. I have used AdBlockPlus in the past but it sometimes interferes with email attachments and other web pages. Time to move to Gmail…at least the text ads avoid disgusting photos and moronic/distracting “animations”. I have also used the Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance sections extensively in the past but may have to leave those as well.
Keep your Yahoo account and give it out to businesses and others who you don’t want to show up in your personal account.
Gmail is no better. In fact, because it’s become so pervasive across platforms, it’s even worse. Much worse…and I gave up yahoo for gmail in 2001, but gmail is nothing more than social media whores now.
Seriously, there is little privacy any more. And if you think using web-based email for anything is going to protect you from anything…well, no. If you are online, you are consumer.
My experience from supporting hardware was that Yahoo was a fucking joke, with one problem or temporary outage after another. I got really tired of ‘those days’ when Yahoo was having a melt-down and we’d get carpet bombed with calls from angry people. “No ma’am, it’s not your computer, it’s Yahoo. No ma’am, I can’t fix Yahoo. No ma’am, I can’t call Yahoo and make them fix it.”
Gmail, I dunno. I had a gmail account for several years, even if the only thing I used it for was to give out when people or companies wanted an email address and I didn’t want to give them my real one. Gave it up because I was tired of all the other crap that goes along with it. NO I DO NOT WANT TO SIGN UP FOR GOOGLE PLUS.
Gmail started in 2004.
Well damn. You’re right.
See? This is why you should never rely on anecdotes. Us old people get shit confused.
I’ve never had issues with either my gmail or my yahoo accounts.
If you have outlook it’s much easier to use gmail and read it in Outlook. Same goes for Hotmail. Unfortunately Yahoo does not provide connectivity unless you pay for it so…
Bye bye Yahoo!
I haven’t had issues with ABP interfering with Yahoo email stuff. If that was some time ago, maybe it’s time to give it another try? You can also modify what URL’s or domains it pays attention to if it still gives you issues with certain websites.
I stopped using Gmail when Amazon began sending me recommendations based on my personal conversations. :eek:
I triage all of my email accounts (AOL, Yahoo, Yahoo, and Gmail) through my iPhone or iPad. No ads, and really fast and easy. (Yes, I still use AOL. In fact, it’s my primary account.)
Um, I just realized that I probably still “have” that old yahoo account even though it’s been at least ten years since I checked it. Can you imagine the spam?
I use gmail and have almost no complaints. I don’t see ads. Is this because I set it to “Basic Mode”?
For Yahoo Mail, OTOH, I could start four Pit threads on aspects I found preposterously annoying.
If you haven’t used it, it’s been deactivated. Before we got my mom an iPad, we had to reactivate her yahoo account every so often because she would never check it.
I m curious what ad it was because if it is a picture of a guy’s stomach shown in X-Ray, I am actually seeing that ad right under your post on this message board (don’t use ad blockers at work). Ironic if it is.
It automatically deletes spam after a while, so it probably isn’t that bad. I just looked, and I have 544 emails in my spam box.
It’s the 36,882 messages in my inbox that raises the ol’ eyebrow.
I believe Yahoo deactivates the account after 6 months (losing all your mail and rejecting all incoming mail), and then deletes the account permanently in another 6 months ? In any case if you haven’t checked it in 10 years, the address is definitely gone unless somebody else signed up for the same address later.
Close…it’s a woman’s abdomen with about 3 separate layers of hanging/overlapping flab. Of course, after using “Miracle-herb” her stomach is totally flat in the after picture. It will take a while to switch everything over to gmail and I will still have to keep Yahoo for my years’-worth of archives but I just got that annoyed. I see that Microsoft Hotmail is changing to @outlook.com addresses and the web interface rates well so I may create one there as well just to check it out.
I use adblock plus and noscript and I have never had a problem with my yahoo account.
The longest spam will stay in your Yahoo spam folder is 30 days, then it is deleted automatically.