Comments on: Yahoo Unlimited E-mail Storage = Ads for Everybody

By: julian

julian — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:16:19 +0000

sad whats happening at yahoo. i got the same email from them . looks like mail plus service has banners now… even though they still advertise yahoo mail plus as banner free. shame on yahoo…moving away to cable.

By: andyo

andyo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:54:13 +0000

Hi again. I found the yahoo mail thread where people are complaining like crazy about this. If my eyes are not deceiving me, has the tower ad shrunk just a bit? Anyway, feel free to leave your complaints there, I guess.

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlimited-storage-its-coming/

By: Kumar

Kumar — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:33:53 +0000

I can’t believe they think people are stupid enough to buy this “world class” service nonsense. We need to organize something to help them know this is quite inapropriate. I’m paying for dumb advertisements???

By: andyo

andyo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:50:09 +0000

oops, sorry. These are my settings for Adblock. You can also use the Element Hiding Helper to aid you, but this will only hide unblockable elements, like Google's text ads and such.

By: andyo

andyo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:45:18 +0000

Hi all, I came to this site through googling for people who had the same trouble as I did. You can get rid of the ads in Firefox (at least visually, but not entirely blocked), but if you haven't done so yet, I'd encourage you to complain. That vertical banner is horribly obtrusive. On a 1024 or 1280 horizontal screen is just unbearable. Check out my screenshots. This is with the new ads. This is after using Adblock plus to block and hide elements. These are my Adblock settings. Copy the lines exactly into the Adblock plus filters and they should get rid of the ads. As you can see, though, I still have the big annoying vertical blank space to the right. Hiding the elements for that messes up the whole page, so I can't do it. It may have to do with the messenger "feature" that these people added. I don't care for Yahoo messenger and I don't want it in my mail. It's funny, just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking of switching from Hotmail to Yahoo, because of their very clean interface, no tagline ads at the end of emails for us paid customers. The tide turned quickly. The new Windows Live Desktop gets rid of ALL ads (including taglines) and provides many more features, and it's faster. It's still in the final beta stages, though, so they may add some ads by the final release, but the way it's been evolving, (from annoying ads to none at all) I'm hopeful.

By: schuck

schuck — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:17:55 +0000

I’ve posted my ire over on
http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/14/unlimited-storage-its-coming/#comment-51010

Get the word out, and maybe this unbelievable marketing gaff will gain some momentum in the news.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:07:54 +0000

I was on the phone for two hours and got the same load of “canned responses” from everyone I talked to.

Has any hacker figured out how to disable the ads yet?

By: Kada Situ

Kada Situ — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:41:16 +0000

This is completely lame, I would prefer having only 2gig of space with no ads. I don’t care about the unlimited storage, since I will backup all the email into Outlook anyways. I really, really hate these new ads as I never seen them before >:(

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:42:04 +0000

Ha ha! I got the same “world class service” line from them this morning, too but through live chat:

AT&T: Hi Customer! How may I help you?

ME: I just want to register a complaint that I hate the ads in my email. I feel that since this is not a free email account and I have been paying your company for 8 yrs. as my ISP, I should have ADS-Free email.

AT&T: I appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused

ME (after long pause): This is lame

AT&T: We apologize for the inconvenience. The advertising is a needed step towards providing world class service at an affordable price.

AT&T: Please bear with us, it is just a temporary advertisement. Im sorry!

ME: Honestly, I have never had world class service from this company and I am not sure that it is even possible.

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