Yahoo Premium Mail (Ad Free) is replacing Yahoo Mail Plus - Page 2

William9 · 9 Jan 2014, 10:26 PM

Here's another aspect of Yahoo! Free. Malware in adverts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25653664

piyu · 20 Mar 2014, 01:02 PM

I was almost shocked to see they more than doubled the price for the Yahoo Mail Plus, for just naming it something else. I decided I wouldn't pay them, and started developing a fix (a Firefox add-on), which is now hosted and getting very good response from people. Just thought of sharing that with you guys.

This is the Firefox add-on:
Yahoo Mail Hide Ad Panel

If you don't have Firefox browser, you can download it from here:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

rmannam · 20 Mar 2014, 07:54 PM

Thanks for sharing the add-on which is very helpful.

LioNiNoiL · 26 Mar 2014, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by William9

What was the duration of Yahoo!'s recent outage?

The outage lasted several days (on-and-off) but the site was hosed in end-November 2013 and full functionality not restored until some (unannounced) time after mid-March 2014. During that time (nearly four months) Yahoo's happy spokesmodels kept saying nothing was wrong, only a "few" users were affected.

Dutchie007 · 26 Mar 2014, 11:40 PM

I use ONLY free mail services:-) and I never see any ads.....!!

the trick is to install an adblock service in your browser...ADBLOCK PLUS (free )..works with firefox, chrome and what else there is!!!

or even better use an email client (Pocomail,Thunderbird,Foxmail or Opera) to retrieve your emails:-)

If you use most (free) apps on an Android phone ads are (alas) inevitable...

Dutchie.

Bamb0 · 27 Mar 2014, 12:52 AM

Yahoo mail has become garbage....... They dont care to help you if your account does not work or anything! (I know from personal experience

)

Just Bill · 27 Mar 2014, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bamb0

Yahoo mail has become garbage....... They dont care to help you if your account does not work or anything! (I know from personal experience

)

I'm not certain that it was ever anything but garbage.

ccl1 · 28 Mar 2014, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bamb0

Yahoo mail has become garbage....... They dont care to help you if your account does not work or anything! (I know from personal experience

)

One day I decided to do a little test. I created a new email account, did not use it for anything, did not give it out to anyone. Within days I started getting spam for buying prescription drugs online etc. Maybe it was just coincidence but in other tests I did with other email providers that didn't happen.

Bamb0 · 30 Mar 2014, 03:51 PM

No such thing as a coincidence..

xmailer · 31 Mar 2014, 11:17 AM

There certainly is such a thing as a coincidence. Mathematically, it would be impossible for there not to be. But I wouldn't blame Yahoo's problems on coincidence. Perhaps just raw ineptitude.

ccl1 · 31 Mar 2014, 03:51 PM

well i mentioned coincidence b/c maybe the name i picked for the test account had been used before. but i tried to pick something unusual enough that i didn't think anyone would have, but you never know b/c theres a few billion people

xmailer · 31 Mar 2014, 06:54 PM

No argument from me. I would only argue (hypothetically? theoretically?) that there is such a thing as coincidence. But that doesn't mean that I think that most or all of Yahoo's problems can be laid to that. Based on my own personal experience with Yahoo, I'm fairly well convinced that most of their problems are based more on ineptitude than coincidence. There've just been too many problems, in too few accounts, of a kind I haven't ever had with, say, Gmail, with a much greater number of accounts. While some of that may be coincidence, to me it seems to go beyond that level.

(And I hardly "worship" Gmail, but agree with them "morally" or not, just in terms of technology, by comparison they seem to know much more what they're doing -- whether or not one agrees with what they're doing.

)

n5bb · 1 Apr 2014, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccl1

One day I decided to do a little test. I created a new email account, did not use it for anything, did not give it out to anyone. Within days I started getting spam for buying prescription drugs online etc. Maybe it was just coincidence but in other tests I did with other email providers that didn't happen.

Yahoo (and some other popular email providers) get hit by millions of dictionary attack spam messages every day. The spammers try a huge list of common names and combinations of names and add numbers and letters to the end. Unless you pick a very long random letter/number string, a random or dictionary attack will eventually find your account. Just like winning a lottery, a lot of this is random and hard for us humans to understand. It's like having an unlisted phone number and getting a call to a wrong number. Nobody knew that number, but if someone accidentally calls it they might accidentally redial it from their recent call list. So you could receive multiple phone calls to that unlisted phone, or multiple random emails if some spammer dictionary list happens to use your address.

Bill

Bamb0 · 5 Apr 2014, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xmailer

There certainly is such a thing as a coincidence..

Well not really bud...... Everything happens FOR A REASON!!

Everything is connected..

xmailer · 5 Apr 2014, 09:40 PM

That falls much more into the category of religion than of, say, science -- the former which is related in no important way that I know to any topic of this discussion forum. But carry on by yourself if you must.

20 Mar 2014, 01:02 PM	#17
piyu Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 1	A cheaper (free!) solution I was almost shocked to see they more than doubled the price for the Yahoo Mail Plus, for just naming it something else. I decided I wouldn't pay them, and started developing a fix (a Firefox add-on), which is now hosted and getting very good response from people. Just thought of sharing that with you guys. This is the Firefox add-on: Yahoo Mail Hide Ad Panel If you don't have Firefox browser, you can download it from here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

9 Jan 2014, 10:26 PM	#16
William9 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,281	Here's another aspect of Yahoo! Free. Malware in adverts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25653664

20 Mar 2014, 07:54 PM	#18
rmannam Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 143	Thanks for sharing the add-on which is very helpful.

26 Mar 2014, 11:40 PM	#20
Dutchie007 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 388	I use ONLY free mail services:-) and I never see any ads.....!! the trick is to install an adblock service in your browser...ADBLOCK PLUS (free )..works with firefox, chrome and what else there is!!! or even better use an email client (Pocomail,Thunderbird,Foxmail or Opera) to retrieve your emails:-) If you use most (free) apps on an Android phone ads are (alas) inevitable... Dutchie.

27 Mar 2014, 12:52 AM	#21
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,868	Yahoo mail has become garbage....... They dont care to help you if your account does not work or anything! (I know from personal experience )

30 Mar 2014, 03:51 PM	#24
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,868	No such thing as a coincidence..

31 Mar 2014, 11:17 AM	#25
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	There certainly is such a thing as a coincidence. Mathematically, it would be impossible for there not to be. But I wouldn't blame Yahoo's problems on coincidence. Perhaps just raw ineptitude.

31 Mar 2014, 03:51 PM	#26
ccl1 Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 236	well i mentioned coincidence b/c maybe the name i picked for the test account had been used before. but i tried to pick something unusual enough that i didn't think anyone would have, but you never know b/c theres a few billion people

31 Mar 2014, 06:54 PM	#27
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	No argument from me. I would only argue (hypothetically? theoretically?) that there is such a thing as coincidence. But that doesn't mean that I think that most or all of Yahoo's problems can be laid to that. Based on my own personal experience with Yahoo, I'm fairly well convinced that most of their problems are based more on ineptitude than coincidence. There've just been too many problems, in too few accounts, of a kind I haven't ever had with, say, Gmail, with a much greater number of accounts. While some of that may be coincidence, to me it seems to go beyond that level. (And I hardly "worship" Gmail, but agree with them "morally" or not, just in terms of technology, by comparison they seem to know much more what they're doing -- whether or not one agrees with what they're doing. )

5 Apr 2014, 09:40 PM	#30
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	That falls much more into the category of religion than of, say, science -- the former which is related in no important way that I know to any topic of this discussion forum. But carry on by yourself if you must.