Article about the Yahoo mail problems

12 years ago

I know many of you use yahoo and have had problems with it since the new change. I thought you might be interested in this article about what is happening.
This is just one of many of course.

Yahoo forced to acknowledge Yahoo Mail problems in worst failure yet

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Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
I know a few people who have had problems. My Y mail accounts have been untouched so far.

I don't know if this big blowup is related to the other issues that have been simmering over the weeks, but they've botched this one up big time. Not the least of which by not being upfront and honest about announcing problems and expected resolutions. They should have had banners on the home page with timely information.

What used to be a shining star in the internet world has sunk. I wonder if they'll be able to reverse their slide?
Sue_va
12 years ago
No Yahoo problems here.

Sue
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rob333 (zone 7b)
12 years ago
I have come to ignore the adds they put in the INBOX. It was above and that was ok. The first day was irritating, but now I just skip over them. Don't even look at them. It's really getting obnoxious that ads are getting so intrusive. Not just on Yahoo. Bottom corners of tv shows (I really hate it when they expand the add and it covers up what is truly going on. ugh!), or inside of GardenWeb threads. OB-NOX-IOUS!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
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12 years ago
rob333 have you tried using adblock plus with the easylist on your browser? It will eliminate all of those ads including the ones in email. I use firefox and always add that extension. I use hotmail for most of my email and never see any of the ads. Never see any here at GW either.
They do make the adblock plus for some other browsers as well.
Adblock Plus
just select your browser on that page.
rob333 (zone 7b)
12 years ago
Cool. Worked. Now about those tv ads... kidding. Thanks raven!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
Original Author
12 years ago
Man if I could make those tv ads in the corners disappear I would be a rich woman! We hate those also!
ivamae
12 years ago
What about the Yahoo calendar. I'm all right now with the mail, but the calendar still won't open with the most recent updates of the system. They are really behind the times.
Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
I think Google's mail and calendar put Yahoo to shame, although not everyone might agree with that. If you can deal with switching over to gmail, I think you'd find it worthwhile.
rob333 (zone 7b)
12 years ago
I love google calendar. But I've had Yahoo so long, same address for so long, I really don't want to get rid of it. I guess I could transition over and have all my mail go to google, forwarded from Yahoo. Hardly seems worth it?
ivamae
12 years ago
Thanks. I am now using Google calendar but liked Yahoo better. However, I'm learning to adapt. I'll still use Yahoo mail until I start having problems there too. There have been a few but it is better than it was. They sure have goofed up by trying to improve things.
golfergrrl
12 years ago
What's odd here is that my Yahoo mail never switched to the
newest version.
The only problem I have is that attachments won't open
using Firefox because the Yahoo internal virus protection
(Norton) blocks them because of a certificate problem.
I downloaded an ad-on to Firefox which "skips certificate
problems", but it doesn't always work.
It's easier to just use IE for Yahoo mail attchs which lets
me download them just fine.

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