Yahoo!

[brinny]

It's got a sneakier way of shovin' those ads into email boxes where they cannot be deleted or marked as "spam".

Anybody got any ideas on how to thwart this sneakiness or stomp it (cyber-wise, of course )

and don't come on here defendin' Yahoo or we're gonna haf'ta haves a food fight

 

[dysert]

I'm not defending them (even though I have a Yahoo account), but I admit I don't quite know what you're talking about. I've let them extort the $20/year from me so that I don't see ads, and stuff I do get either goes to Spam or can easily be marked as such.

Care to elaborate?

 

[C-Man]

I heard on the news this morning that their new boss is making some major changes.

So far, she's changed the logo. :3

 

[dysert]

I heard on the news this morning that their new boss is making some major changes.

So far, she's changed the logo. :3

In addition to changing the logo a few times, they've now made it so that you have to sometimes switch folders in order to see what's new in your current folder. Some significant improvements ;-(

 

[brinny]

I'm not defending them (even though I have a Yahoo account), but I admit I don't quite know what you're talking about. I've let them extort the $20/year from me so that I don't see ads, and stuff I do get either goes to Spam or can easily be marked as such.

Care to elaborate?

i'll see if i can explain...

Directly above my emails, is what looks like another email, but there's no li'l square box to check off to delete or send to spam, etc. In essence it's an "ad" that Yahoo! apparently inserted there. It cannot be deleted or gotten rid of. It's not an email, because when you click on it, the ad opens up and there's no return email address, etc. it's an ad.

 

[dysert]

i'll see if i can explain...

Directly above my emails, is what looks like another email, but there's no li'l square box to check off to delete or send to spam, etc. In essence it's an "ad" that Yahoo! apparently inserted there. It cannot be deleted or gotten rid of. It's not an email, because when you click on it, the ad opens up and there's no return email address, etc. it's an ad.

Hmm. I don't see anything like that, so either it's because I pay the $20/year or because of my browser (Chrome) and its nifty "AdBlock" plugin. Assuming you don't want to pay the $20, try accessing your Yahoo account with Chrome using AdBlock and see if it's still there.

 

[brinny]

how do i get hold of AdBlock?

 

[dysert]

how do i get hold of AdBlock?

It's been so long since I got it I'm not absolutely sure, but if you click on Chrome's menu icon and go to Tools -> Extensions, I think there's a link where you can go get it.

 

[brinny]

Thanks.

 

[ulu]

Did it work?t That useless ad is very annoying...