“No email for you!”, says Yahoo to Adblock users

from JoeUser Forums

 

 

Engadget reported it, and Yahoo confirmed it…Yahoo’s displaying for a small test group the following message: "Uh oh... We are unable to display Yahoo Mail. Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo mail." The original complainants were on Adblock/Adblock Plus Forums from folks who had to disable their adblockers to access their “free” email.

Yahoo isn’t trailblazing anything with this. It is something which is becoming more and more common…sites demanding disabling of adblockers to get to that site’s services…even The Washington Post.

So…just to let you know it’s coming…and there’s not too damned much one can do about it, either. As for disabling Java (to prevent infection through Java applets) – I haven’t seen any reports as to whether this will prevent getting your email…but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit…or byte.

Source:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/yahoo-ad-blocker-issue/

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yahoo still exists?

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

sure it does. it still run most of british telecom's email. despite yahoo having had a huge data leak a few years back, bt has been bodging its migration away from that email provider.

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well guess this is just part of the new World as it is now. Money is money and Yahoo and others don't want to give it up. Bet if they offered a add free email with a paid subscription people would all bitch about that. No different then all the free apps for phones. Many of the phone apps have in app subscriptions or purchase for add free. I have done that on a couple apps I use. To me it was worth paying a couple dollars to get rid of the adds. Everybody wants free but it's all changing and no need to bitch about everything in this World. 

If one can't control or fix a situation no sense in worrying about it.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. All three. I migrated away from Yahoo a while ago and all my personal stuff goes to the Gmail which I two-step secure.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I see no difference in my email and I use yahoo. Checked it earlier.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Planet Uvah:


Yahoo’s displaying for a small test group the following message: "Uh oh... We are unable to display Yahoo Mail. Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo mail."
End of quote

Testing on a small group...you aren't part of the group, hence...you don't see changes now. But you will. OK?

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 6

Testing on a small group...you aren't part of the group, hence...you don't see changes now. But you will. OK?
End of DrJBHL's quote

Sorry for you Ross. :rofl:

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just change your mail provider. No big deal

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

my bank and Netflix won't let access unless your browser is up to date. (not sure if there is a version cut off)

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JoDa, reply 8

Just change your mail provider. No big deal
End of JoDa's quote
Or turn off AdBlocker. No Big Deal. WC looks like and works like crap with it enabled anyway.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Don't use Yahoo for anything here, no biggie to me.  ;P

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have an email account but no one emails me, guess I need to give the address out.   :-"

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

i had a quick look at some of the email services a few years back ... some of them ask for mobile phone numbers

eh? i don't use mobiles.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Quoting alaknebs, reply 13

some of them ask for mobile phone numbers

End of alaknebs's quote

After they forbid you to block possibly infected Java ad applets, they offer this two factor authentication, for your "security". 

If they cared at all about your security, they'd go over to html5...and scrap Java.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DaveBax, reply 7


Quoting DrJBHL,
reply 6

Testing on a small group...you aren't part of the group, hence...you don't see changes now. But you will. OK?



Sorry for you Ross. :rofl:

End of DaveBax's quote

Ain't it just like them to exclude me from the deal. This is outrageous, I'm gonna complain to somebody. What'd I ever do to them. HMPH! :P

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

They're just slowly putting us in a nice little box. >:(

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

meh, whatever, fuck yahoo..

 

The end result is just an arms race ending with sophisticated users not seeing ads and the 90% having a shittier browsing experience.  Pretty much how the rest of real life already is anyway...  The place where this really sucks though is at work, where users don't actually have all that much control over the terminals they're using...

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yahoo can stick their fechen email where the sun don't shine.  Ditched 'em years ago cos of all the ads and spam they generated.  Nope, there's no way I'd ever go back to that.  If something isn't ad/spam free, or can't be made to be, then I simply don't/won't use it. 

I was recently referred to a site which demanded that I disabled Adblock in order to complete a purchase, and I figured "fech that, it's not happening", and went elsewhere instead.  I refuse to do business under those terms.

Reply #19 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

My email - which is yahoo.co.nz - downloads to my Outlook no problem. For a good year or two I find myself stuck in the Eternal Log-In Loop From Hell whenever I try to log-in to Yahoo! so tend not to use Yahoo!'s website for email anymore.

I've certainly seen a rise in the number of "we detect you have Adblocker. Please turn it off and take our advertisements, which allow this site to operate" websites over the last year. Some websites I frequent have mooted a subscription to deal with this issue but haven't actually made the jump yet.

 

Reply #20 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I've been running Yahoo email forever (OK, a long damn time). GMail wasn't an option at the time. Just ISP-based email, AOL, and Yahoo. I'm definitely not a fan and don't recommend it to anyone.

 

But I will say that, thankfully, I run an ad-blocker and have had no issues so far. This is wrong-headed enough I think they'll give it up. But I firmly believe that ads on webpages is going to go through some kind of evolution soon.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Kazzerigian, reply 20

I run an ad-blocker and have had no issues so far.
End of Kazzerigian's quote

So far... ;)

Quoting Kazzerigian, reply 20

This is wrong-headed enough I think they'll give it up.
End of Kazzerigian's quote

Sure they will. They don't want the money from advertising, right?

Reply #22 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 21


Quoting Kazzerigian,
reply 20

I run an ad-blocker and have had no issues so far.



So far... ;)


Quoting Kazzerigian,
reply 20

This is wrong-headed enough I think they'll give it up.



Sure they will. They don't want the money from advertising, right?

End of DrJBHL's quote

 

"..I firmly believe that ads on webpages is going to go through some kind of evolution soon."

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Kazzerigian, reply 22

I firmly believe that ads on webpages is going to go through some kind of evolution soon
End of Kazzerigian's quote

I don't care what kind of 'evolution' ads may go through, if I can't use Adblocker to filter them out, then I'll simply exit the site and go elsewhere.  There's nothing worse than flashing banner ads right beside/near something of interest... not only are they an unnecessary visual distraction, they also play havoc with my vertigo.