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Yahoo mail.... has indeed gotten worse.[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#7)
by Anonymous User on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 03:57:52 PM PDT

I'm a paying DSL ATT/Yahoo customer and now, I have to watch adds to view my web mail. And not just ads, but huge, full screen vertical ads (skyscrapers). Just pathetic.

And spam blocking?? It doesn't exist. They have zero email protection in my opinion. I've never used my account to send or receive email except for my own use to send files back and forth. Yet somehow, within days of opening my DSL account, I was getting barraged with spam, and still am, years later.

And even more stupidity.... If you want to make your calendar available online, the URL for your calendar contains your primary email address. How stupid is that? Contrast that to Google which creates an URL for your public calendars that does not expose your email addresses. Needless to say, I avoided making any part of my account public, but it hasn't mattered in that the spam flows freely.

Yahoo is clearly not with the program.

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Yahoo mail isn't so bad for me[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by geoffhazel on Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 11:53:53 AM PDT

I also have been a long time Yahoo mail user, and haven't had too much to complain about. I get lots of email into my bulk mail, and from zero to 4 actual spam per day. I didn't like how they put the "skyscraper" ads on the right side of the new mail, but found that I can use Firefox with a Greasemonkey add-on that filters those ads right off the page. If I didn't have that, I, too, would be upset. I'm going to slowly transition over to gmail though, because apparently my company feels about Yahoo the way most of the people who have commented here do, and they are blocking Yahoo access from our Blackberries now. Gmail, however, still gets through.

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use classic view[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by bmeacham on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 12:07:41 PM PDT

I use the classic view of email, not Yahoo's new view, and I do not see "skyscraper" ads, only a banner ad at the top of the page.

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