As I understand it, the purpose of whatever information analytics are used by Google and others is to try to tailor ad delivery. Magazines and newspapers have been doing the same thing for years, though perhaps not always with the same information. No one tracks or cares about how many times a week YOU go to the bank or what route you take to get there. Anyone who wants to track me is more than welcome to do so. The thing is, the alternative is a string and two tin cans. People aren't willing to ditch their smartphones, most people aren't bothered by the data accumulation aspect.

I just got that message too. At the bottom left there was a place to "skip for now" which I did and got into my mail. Pretty sure they can't/won't lock us out of email because of our lack of the right phones. Sandy

Jasdip you should definitely be using a more updated and more secure version of IE, or any browser for that matter, they are updated to eliminate security vulnerabilities. I have IE 11 on my windows 7 machines. I never use it but I keep it updated. I would suggest going to at least 10. You should be getting these as critical updates through your Windows updates, are you getting those updates monthly or as issued? They are very important. You can check through the windows updates in control panel.

I never use my Yahoo account. I only use the email address when I need to sign up for something that I don't fully trust not to sell my address to spam mail servers. It really helps to keep my gmail and ISP email accounts fairly clear of spam. So the above 'solution' was found after a google search. Looking through my own yahoo page, I also do not see this option, so it must be outdated. And I can't seem to find another option anywhere else. That said, I only have two emails saved in my contacts list, so apparently Yahoo has not been automagically saving new contacts for me. I will keep looking to see if I can stumble across a solution for you. Edit: And here is something I have found. Mouseover the Cog on the right upper side. Click 'Settings'. Click 'Writing Email'. Uncheck 'Automatically add new recipients to Contacts'. This sounds like it only saves emails in your contacts list if you respond to someone, not if you read their emails, but it might be worth a shot. Also, on the off-chance you have a virus that is sending out emails (and thus adding the contacts), check your Sent Mail to see if there is anything there that you didn't send. This post was edited by Leekle2ManE on Wed, Dec 10, 14 at 13:27