# Goodbye Yahoo mail after many, many years **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300 "2013-01-07T01:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/21 "2013-01-08T03:33:27Z")
I have a yahoo mail account dating back to before 2000 too, in fact it wasn’t even a yahoo mail account originally. I check it every year roughly. I would love to hear about this weight loss ad though. What did the OP find wrong with it? ---
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/22 "2013-01-08T03:44:37Z")
Feel your pain – got an Outlook account to replace my Yahoo. Nice and clean. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/23 "2013-01-08T03:51:51Z")
ADBLOCK PLUS I’ve had problems with Gmail. The most noticeable was when I was expecting attachments on mass emails. Coworkers spoke of getting them but I had nothing in my Inbox or Spam. It can several hours later (6-8 hours IIRC ). It happened other times. Don’t know if it’s fixed I have overkill: 2 Yahoo, 2 Gmail, and 1 on Microsoft Exchange. I probably got the 1 Yahoo in 1998 or something. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/24 "2013-01-08T05:07:05Z")
My AT&T DSL email is through Yahoo. Or at least it was. I haven’t signed into my AT&T homepage in a couple years. But, FAIK Yahoo is part of the DSL package. I never really had a need for their email and continued using the one at work. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/25 "2013-01-08T16:54:41Z")
Yahoo Mail user since late 1999. It’s funny, I find Yahoo Mail’s latest look its best yet - I don’t see any ads at all, it is clean and fast. Using Firefox without AdBlock. I do use Ghostery, I have some of the bigger trackers blocked (DoubleClick, Right Media). ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/26 "2013-01-08T17:15:41Z")
If your email isn’t worth having your own domain and hosting for a few bucks a year, you get what you deserve from the mass email providers. IMVHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/27 "2013-01-09T03:57:57Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I use gmail and have almost no complaints. I don’t see ads. Is this because I set it to “Basic Mode”? Yes, I think so. I’ve done this, and I also habitually run by browser with JavaScript disabled (except when I really need it). I believe it was the “Basic Mode” that eliminated the context-sensitive (a.k.a. mail-snooping) ads, but I imagine Google still reads all my ads to build their infinite profile on me. Disabling JavaScript also eliminated a LOT of ads and other crap on a LOT of web sites, including here on SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300/28 "2013-01-10T15:49:48Z")
You could try Hushmail: [http://www.hushmail.com/](http://www.hushmail.com/) . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-yahoo-mail-after-many-many-years/646300.md?page=1)