NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to koma3504
Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo
said by koma3504  :Im not running any add blockers Other people reported seeing ads before I saw any.
I saw ads in the Primary account before I saw them in the sub accounts; at one point, I had ads in some accounts, but not in others.
About half the time I see evidence of blocked ads. I have a few custom blocks in my 'hosts' file, but I haven't updated the ad sites in over a year. I run the latest versions of the browsers: Opera 9.21 has some native blocking built in. Firefox 2.0.0.4 has script and ad blocking extensions, as does SeaMonkey 1.1.2. I haven't accessed the web mail site with MS Internet Explorer 7 yet.
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koma3504
Advocate
Premium
join:2004-06-22
North Richland Hills, TX | so its one of those things that is gonna slowley trickle it's way around to all the servers. |
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wings10
I Am Legend
Premium
join:2004-06-09
South Elgin, IL
1 edit | reply to Mchart
I don't even see them in my free yahoo e-mail. Maybe it goes by when you created your account?
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davidt
Where am I?
join:2001-05-09
Birmingham, AL
| reply to kpollari
Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here
I would think that an ISP doesn't really have to provide webmail access. They provide your email account(s) and access to the mail servers through a suggested email client. It has just been sort of a value-added service until recently. They've decided to try to recoup some of the cost of running a webmail system with features that users have come to expect. IF they gave you an option, would you pay a few dollars more NOT to see the ads? I just ignore the ads anyway.
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beers66
join:2006-09-24
Bourbonnais, IL | Just made the switch to Thunderbird. May make the switch to cable service next. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by beers66 :Just made the switch to Thunderbird. May make the switch to cable service next. As long as you are willing to pay more for ad-free web mail; nothing really wrong with that decision. But my price point for HSI is about $25; and I prefer to use an email client over web browser for email access, anyway.
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~Oh Lord, why have you come
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wings10
I Am Legend
Premium
join:2004-06-09
South Elgin, IL
 ·Dish Network
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Comcast
| reply to beers66
said by beers66 :Just made the switch to Thunderbird. May make the switch to cable service next. Why? Comcast and other isp's providers will probably add ad's next in their web mail. Use Outlook and you will have no problems with seeing ad's.
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amadeus2000
join:2003-04-14
Santa Clara, CA
| reply to Mchart
Re: Oh Boy, ads are now here on ATT/Yahoo
I solved this by simply having gmail pick-up my mail. Its ads aren't an eyesore. So I see this as a good way for Yahoo to send people to gmail. That should help there business. How long will it be before the iPhone has adds, so AT&T can upgrade the system to 3G? |
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recrum
join:2002-09-10
Akron, OH | reply to Mchart
not to add fuel to the fire, but has anyone experienced an increase in the amount of spam emails? Mine has almost doubled since the ads started and getting worse. The only up side is yahoo's spam filter has caught them all. |
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Yes, spam is up. But it is also up on another system that has nothing to do with Yahoo or AT&T.
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to recrum
said by recrum :not to add fuel to the fire, but has anyone experienced an increase in the amount of spam emails? Mine has almost doubled since the ads started and getting worse. The only up side is yahoo's spam filter has caught them all. Spam isn't up on all of my at&t Yahoo! HSI sub accounts; I actually have a couple which get no spam at all. OTOH, spam is up on a couple of email accounts which aren't even associated with at&t Yahoo! HSI.
Don't fall for the "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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wings10
I Am Legend
Premium
join:2004-06-09
South Elgin, IL | reply to Mchart
Is this just e-mails that end in @att.net? I have an sbc address and I just checked my e-mail using yahoo and still do not see ad's.
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | I am seeing ads with my @ameritech.net address.
You only see them when using webmail. If you use a pop3 client to read your mail you won't see the ads.
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to wings10
said by wings10 :Is this just e-mails that end in @att.net? I have an sbc address and I just checked my e-mail using yahoo and still do not see ad's. Using »mail.yahoo.com/ to check my '@pacbell.net' email accounts I see ads on the site.
Using the Mercury/32 "Mercury POP3 Distributing Client" to access 'pop.att.yahoo.com' I see no ads in the email.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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digitalfreak
join:2005-12-09
49533 | reply to Mchart
Not sure if it's new or part of the AdBlock Plus add-in I use in Firefox, but I'm now seeing an arrow between your e-mail window and the right side ad. Clicking on it removes the ad... |
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Old_Grouch
Don't just sit there silly DO something
Premium
join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
clubs:
·AT&T Midwest
| I sense that they are still twiddling with things.
Clicking the arrow for me covers the ad to display wider messages but only until the next screen refresh when things snap back to ugly.
Add to that the fact that sometimes my efforts to get into e-mail are met with error messages and multiple screen refresh attempts with no obvious reason (with or without the IE add-on).
I think the net is that they are taking full advantage of the word 'beta' and making changes on the fly. |
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C DM
join:2002-12-31
| said by Old_Grouch :I sense that they are still twiddling with things. Clicking the arrow for me covers the ad to display wider messages but only until the next screen refresh when things snap back to ugly. Add to that the fact that sometimes my efforts to get into e-mail are met with error messages and multiple screen refresh attempts with no obvious reason (with or without the IE add-on). I think the net is that they are taking full advantage of the word 'beta' and making changes on the fly. That is how that arrow was designed to work. There really are no quick changes on the fly, the new releases come out only once in a while, but there could always be a possibility of some sort of issues on the server you are on and/or the way things work on your client/computer/connection sometimes (since there are people who have different problems here and there, while there are a whole lot more who don't). |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
 ·Site5.com
·AT&T Midwest
·Comcast
| reply to Mchart
Registering a domain: $7 a year
Webhost: $5-$7 a month
Accessing your email via web, pop3, or IMAP without dealing with ads: Priceless
Seriously, I have been doing this for years since I bought my domain. Its great and if you are fed up with ISP email, it is worth it.
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Nightfall's Hockey and Life Journal |
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rolande
Certifiable
Premium,Mod
join:2002-05-24
Powell, OH
clubs:
Host:
Linksys
AT&T Midwest
| reply to recrum
I have been getting close to 120-150 a day in the past week or so. Before that I was seeing maybe 50-70 per day. The volume has certainly increased significantly. I'd be experiencing a lot of pain and suffering without SpamAssassin. It catches more than 95% of the crap automatically. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | reply to wings10
Ads in free Yahoo! Mail account. | .JPG/thumb.jpg "200302 bytes")
Ads in free Yahoo! Mail account. |
said by wings10 :I don't even see them in my free yahoo e-mail. Maybe it goes by when you created your account? I created my free Yahoo! Mail account in 1999. Except for a period between Dec. 18, 2002 and some time in 2004, when it was merged with an '@pacbell.net' account, it has always had ads.
I keep forgetting: Even though the account has been severed from the '@pacbell.net' account, it still shows the AT&T co-branding. So I will add a new screen shot from a pure free webmail account.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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