Now look at what Yahoo is doing (desktop, laptop, email)

[jtur88]

At the top of my Yahoo inbox, suddenly appears an email from "Instant Checkmate", subject "Do yuo know who your neighbors are?" There is no box to "select" the message for deletion. In place of that box is a circle, that when clicked, explains Yahoo's policy on ad emails. It is impossible to remove the line from my inbox list. When I click on the subject, it opens a website, so it is impossible, once opened, to delete it.

Anybody know what the hell is going on? I never got one of these before, must be another new way that Yahoo "improves my experience".

Eventually, I guess, since it is impossible to remove them, as they keep sending me more of them they will pile up at the top of my screen and I'll have to scroll down a few pages to find my real emails.

[thecoalman]

Use an email client, thsi will download the email and store locally:

Mail Help | - SLN3285 - Using POP with Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Mail


This is similar to web email and the email is stored on the server so you can access it from multiple devices:

Mail Help | - SLN4075 - IMAP settings for Yahoo! Mail

[nezlie]

I have it on my email inbox also. Did you see where on the far right on that same top line it says 'Sponsored?'

That tells me it's an ad.

Then right under it is the 'Sort by Date' line.

I guess it's another way of advertising.... using the top of the inbox.

[jtur88]

It doesn't seem to me that Yahoo is on the brink of bankrputcy or just barely scraping by financially. The tiny increment of additional revenue they can squeeze out of this practice just doesn't seem worth a highly visible, in-your-face measure that has so much potential to infuriate and alienate their existing customer base and the contempt that they are showing for their clientele..

[pcity]

They can't "pile up" in your inbox because they aren't emails. They're ads.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by pcity

They can't "pile up" in your inbox because they aren't emails. They're ads.

Of course. How foolish of me to think that my Inbox is where my incoming Email goes and over which I can have content control and exercise preferences. .

By the way, Yahoo is only spamming users with a USA yahoo.com address. This junk does not clutter email Inboxes with yahoo.ca, yahoo.de, yahoo.no, and other international users. Yet.

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As if that were not enough, it is now impossible to open a new Yahoo account (as if anybody would want one) unless you first establish a mobile telephone number and a paid-up service plan to make it work, which appears to be a rigid pre-requisite. Land line access not acceptable, Yahoo refuses to entertain a business relationship with a user who does not have a mobile..

[MikeJaquish]

I prefer to use an email service, rather than an advertising platform with an email service appended to it.

[texdav]

Originally Posted by pcity

They can't "pile up" in your inbox because they aren't emails. They're ads.

Exactly; nothing is truly free; at least forever. One can change e-mail if not liked.

[Jkgourmet]

Originally Posted by MikeJaquish

I prefer to use an email service, rather than an advertising platform with an email service appended to it.

Mike, what do you use?

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by Jkgourmet

Mike, what do you use?

JK,

You may not like the answer....
I use Microsoft Hosted Exchange via Navisite, A Time Warner Company.
I used Navisite, and TWC bought them. Regardless, I am very pleased with the service.

It gives me a MS Outlook 2010 download that I can put on as many computers as I want to. Right now I have it on two desktops and a laptop.
And I can access email via my phone and tablet, too.

$12/month for 4 GB of email, and I have to pay yearly for a domain name.

But, that service is offered by any number of players, GoDaddy, 1and1.com, and others.
1and1.com offers Outlook 2013, and the first year is really cheap.

I would suggest something like "JK@JKGourmet.info" on 1and1 for an email account. 1and1 .info domain registry is $0.99 for the first year, and I think you can get Hosted Exchange for $1.99/month for the first year.
1and1 has given me OK service on my domain hosting questions, and I think they would be OK with an email account.

I gladly pay a bitty sum of money for a professional email service that doesn't pepper me with ads, particularly since I use it very heavily for business.
I am also looking at needing multiple email addresses for the office, and may do that through Navisite, or may do it via Zoho.com. Zoho is pretty cheap, no ads, and has a nicely Spartan interface. "Just the facts." Which is all I need.


ETA:
I do have a Yahoo account for various purposes. It has been tutti frutti all day. Just not dependable anymore.