# Yahoo mail getting obnoxious about adblockers:any good alternatives?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 5, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307 "2020-12-05T16:47:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307/1 "2020-12-05T16:47:40Z")

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They are starting to get really obtrusive about trying to get me to disable my adblocker. Which I am not about to do. So, does anyone have suggestions for a free email service which is reliable and seems to be established enough that it will probably be around for a reasonable time? (NOT gmail, please… Google stopped Not Being Evil a long time ago)!

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307/2 "2020-12-05T17:35:29Z")

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There is an alternative to reading your email on the Yahoo site: you can use imap or popmail (imap is preferred) and use an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird to read the email.

> **[Thunderbird — Make Email Easier.](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/)**
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> Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!

> **[Thunderbird and Yahoo | Thunderbird Help](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo)**
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> How to set up Yahoo! services in Thunderbird.

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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307/3 "2020-12-05T17:49:10Z")

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I have thought about Mozilla… already a Firefox user. Will investigate, thanks.

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**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307/4 "2020-12-06T06:22:50Z")

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I use [outlook.com](http://outlook.com), I’ve been using it for several years and haven’t had any problems with it

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**Author:** ![Chickenwrangler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chickenwrangler/32/91_2.png) [@Chickenwrangler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenwrangler)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail-getting-obnoxious-about-adblockers-any-good-alternatives/927307/5 "2020-12-06T09:44:49Z")

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Have you tried Adguard?  
It comes as free extension for Edge and Chrome.

I use it and get no problems from Yahoo! mail  
[AdGuard](https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html)