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2013/06/16 14:07:00 (permalink)

Yaboo to Yahoo :-(

 
I've always used Yahoo Mail.
 
Today I've been informed that I have to upgrade to their newer interface.
 
I've tried it before and it's sh1te.
 
I just happen to like the feel of Mail 'Classic', but in a week or so that's not going to be an option.
 
Why can't they just leave things alone, or at least let us have a 'Classic'-looking interface as one of the options.
 
I'm not happy
 
I'm guessing the change has been driven by their advertisers...
 
I mean to say, you wouldn't call this subtle would you:
 
 

 
 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 14:15:25 (permalink)
They are likely going to a tablet oriented interface. It sucks.

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 14:22:45 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2013/06/18 11:58:39
Can you not use some form of adblocker ?
 
"Improving" things seems to be popular amongst email clients / forums of late. I use hotmail and have just had the outlook conversion forced upon me, which seems to follow the trend for lots of wasted space on screen (like this forum). When I send an email now, the whole left hand third of the screen is taken up with .... TO: Whoever.
 
Nothing else, just that. WTF ? It also insists on telling me who the message I am preparing is from. Erm, that's me. I already know that. I could even have a picture of myself next to that if I wanted to, just in case I forget what I look like mid message I suppose ?
 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 14:56:15 (permalink)
paulo
Can you not use some form of adblocker ?
 


Paul, I don't know - it might be an option for the paid account, but I haven't checked.
 
They actually tell you that: "Yahoo! may use your searches, demographics data, and location information to select the ads you see"
 
The only option I can find is to turn this 'ad selection' crap off. You still get the 'normal' ads though.
 
 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 14:59:13 (permalink)
I've been using Yahoo Mail, too.  I haven't gotten the "upgrade" message.  Thanks for the heads-up, Steve.  

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 15:09:46 (permalink)
 
Here are the paid options.
 
Have to say, it's very tempting at 23p a week...
 
 


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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 15:18:42 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2013/06/18 11:58:55
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paulo
Can you not use some form of adblocker ?
 


Paul, I don't know - it might be an option for the paid account, but I haven't checked.
 
They actually tell you that: "Yahoo! may use your searches, demographics data, and location information to select the ads you see"
 
The only option I can find is to turn this 'ad selection' crap off. You still get the 'normal' ads though.
 
 




I meant in your browser. I use adblock plus in Firefox and they're gone. Not just on email, but everywhere. :)
 
 
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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 17:35:24 (permalink)
 
Ah, got you.
 
Someone once recommended 'Adfender' to me, I'll give it a bash.
 
 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 18:59:39 (permalink)
Ya-fooey.

 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/16 22:53:46 (permalink)
yacacaapoopoo!!!!

The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate.

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/17 00:36:45 (permalink)

 
Hooey.

 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/18 10:58:13 (permalink)
 
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
It's soooooooooo feckin' slowwwwwwwwwwwwwww compared to Mail 'Classic' as well
 
Plus, no matter how you configure it, you can't see as much information on the screen as before
 
When the faceless cretins who have "been listening to their customers" decided we needed a complete revamp of a perfectly good, fully working and user-friendly system, who did they ask? Pistolpete? Pistolpete's fan club? Other morons? Heads should roll for this disgrace
 
I am not feckin' happy
 
 
At least I'm now pretty much ad-free thanks to my old mucker Paul(o)
 
 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/18 11:23:43 (permalink)
I'm still recovering from the Outlook fiasco that Hotmail went through as an "update". It seems to me that the end user really doesn't have much say in the matter.

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/18 11:45:39 (permalink)
I still prefer the Classic Coffee Haus... 

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/18 12:19:43 (permalink)
IMO the only thing that Yahoo has gotten right lately is their iPhone weather app. That thing is a thing of beauty.....

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Re: Yaboo to Yahoo :-( 2013/06/24 18:15:20 (permalink)
I have been using Yahoo mail since 2001, and have grown increasingly frustrated with it.
-Their sign in seals only worked once or twice and I finally gave up on those.
 
-A few years ago they kept prompting me to upgrade to the newer version/format.
I resisted each & every time, so it finally said that 'I was now being switched over' to that anyway!
 
Uh - excuse me - but why give me an option in the first place, just to ignore my choice if it isn't the one you were hoping I'd choose?
The option to resort back to the older classic Yahoo was available, but very well hidden.
When contacted, they resisted in letting me know where & how to choose that option to go back.
 
-Then my default browser got switched to 'Yahoo Search', without me knowing and I had a hell of a time getting that to go away.
 
-Their articles are mostly Pro-Women/Anti-Men 90% of the time, which is incredibly biased & unfair, consistently portraying 'Men Bad - who ruined & destroy everything'! while 'Women Good - who fix all things & make everything right again'!
Most of time it's 'Men are cheaters', even though studies now show the cheating rate of women is equal to and is anticipated to surpass that of men.
 
I guess Yahoo hasn't seen those statistics yet - or they simple refuse to for their own purposes. 
 
-The titles of those articles use the power of suggestion to consistently make their point so you don't even have to read them to have that stuck in your craw!
 
-They've been prompting for a few months now  to set up my public profile, which I don't want.
So now, if I go to sign out and mis-click or don't wait long enough, it automatically goes to my profile - remember the one I didn't want to set up? Except now I have to wait for that page to switch & load, only to sign out.
 
-Lately now, in addition to relentless ads, & slow loading times, they're throwing surveys as pop-ups at us.
 
I refuse to ever give even a single cent to any paid options, service or version of this 'new Nazi party' and their slimey tricks, that have nothing to do with their users choices!
 
Edit: No sooner do I finish this post, and there it is yet again - another post about cheating men and what one particular woman did about it as 'pay back'. 
 
And yet if a man did anything even remotely close to that, he'd be wearing his nackers like earrings before long!
 
Go Yahoo Go!
 
Good Grief!!!!!!!!!!!
 
That's it - I'm finding a new email tonight! Clearly I'm even more cheesed than the OP.
 
Boy do I have trigger points & issues with Yahoo or what???????????????
post edited by jimusic - 2013/06/24 20:53:49



 
 
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