The new Yahoo Mail, currently in beta, will be available to all users very soon. An evidence for that is the fact that Yahoo Mail started to display obtrusive ads: along with an animated flash in the right sidebar, you can now see huge ads (like the one for Vonage) that fill an entire page. Ironically, this ad is included in the Spam section.
Another usability problems regarding ads in Yahoo Mail Beta. There are two group of ads in most of the pages, one in the right sidebar (animated flash), next to the scrollbars that lets you select a mail or read it. The other group of ads sits at the bottom, right under the navigation, and includes the usual "credit card", "free loan consult" small ads. The problem is that it's very easy to click on the ads by mistake. And if you click on an ad, it doesn't open a new page or tab, the page just replaces the ad in the iframe, so you'll get this funny picture.
Because Yahoo chose to stick with the flash ads, if you move from a page to another (from inbox to the RSS reader, for example), you'll notice a big delay in page loading, especially if you have a slow connection.
And another thing: Yahoo didn't drop the welcome page that announces you how many emails you have, and whose only purpose is to make people click on the ad if they don't have any new messages.
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The problem is that it's very easy to click on the ads by mistakeThat's the whole point.
God I hate Yahoo
Long live Google
said on April 23, 2006 4:22 AM PDT:
To get Yahoo Mail Beta, just switch your content preference to Germany, Frence or UK. Then you will be asked if you want to join the beta when you log into your Yahoo Mail. Say yes, and join the beta. Then from the options menu, change your content preference what it was before. Then go to Yahoo Mail again. You should still see Yahoo Beta. If you don’t see it, go to options and click “Try Beta” button. That’s all.
The Turk
said on April 27, 2006 1:23 AM PDT:
the ads are very very destructive, that is why new version wont be so popular
said on April 27, 2006 10:02 AM PDT:
Pay $20 a year and you won't have the ads in Yahoo Mail Beta. If you are using it for free well then you get what you pay for.
said on April 27, 2006 3:14 PM PDT:
I use gmail for free. I don't have to pay for it. It works very well AND allows pop retrieval.
Use Yahoo mail? Um, why?
I find only one feature attractive in yahoo beta. The interface. Other than that, it resembles google
said on August 6, 2006 10:15 PM PDT:
Why not just use Mozilla Firefox with the AdBlock extension... Anytime and ad shows up, right click and click AdBlock. It will never show up again... anywhere...
said on September 23, 2006 12:50 PM PDT:
I hate the yahoo beta mail the advertisements take up the whole page so it is harder to read your mail. I had it for one day. I hope they take their ads and shove directly up their ...
said on October 12, 2006 2:24 PM PDT:
if you use ad block with ff the page doesnt load at all unless you whitelist the page. any body have one of those gmail invites?
said on November 29, 2006 2:03 PM PDT:
Firefox + AdblockPlus [this is not Adblock} + Flashblock, and it works fine and you see no ads, on any webpage. It can't remove the two or three text ads on the left but those aren't noticeable really.
Flashblock especially makes sites like myspace tolerable. Nothing loads unless you want it to, or whitelist the site
said on April 23, 2007 7:04 AM PDT:
Enjoyed a lot!
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said on June 5, 2007 9:18 PM PDT:
I'm a longtime gmail user, recently filled up my gmail space quota.
There is one thing yahoo has over gmail: sort by message size. This helps you find your largest attachments for reclaiming mailbox space.
said on June 8, 2007 9:36 AM PDT:
I hate these new ads in yahoo mail. And as for the person that said "Pay $20 a year and you won't have the ads in Yahoo Mail Beta."
Um, I pay them $20 a MONTH as my ISP and I still have the annoying ads...
Travis said on June 11, 2007 3:17 PM PDT:
It's also ironic that there is a Gmail ad at the bottom of this page.
said on June 12, 2007 7:45 AM PDT:
Since the ads are in Flash you can Right mouse click and zoom in until the ad is basically white space. Of course this will on work until you refresh the screen and then you may have to do it over again. But it can be helpful when composing so you don't have these annoying blinking ads. Also, I know there is a registry hack for removing the Yahoo Messenger ads. Does anyone know of one for this?!
To remove the ads from Yahoo Mail Beta, try
this Greasemonkey script (requires Firefox +
Greasemonkey, although it should also work in other browsers with similar plug-ins or in Opera natively).
Regarding the banner from Yahoo Messenger, I found
a way to remove it that doesn't require installing software.
said on June 13, 2007 1:42 PM PDT:
I have the ATT Yahoo, gee so I guess the money I pay ATT doesn't give me the right to be free of the ad's. Guess it's time to switch to cable and pop access
Danilics said on June 16, 2007 1:51 AM PDT:
use firefox with adblock plus :D it works:) no ads!!! :D
Yahoo is crap. I am a long time user of both Yahoo mail and ATT/SBC Yahoo home internet. I had ad free Yahoo mail up until about two weeks ago. I still pay for ATT/SBC Yahoo DSL service, but apparently that is no longer enough to keep ads out of my yahoo mail. Literally, Yahoo mail was the last service I was using at Yahoo. Now I think I will be 100% Google. Thanks Yahoo, you suckwad of a web service provider.
nathan said on June 22, 2007 12:57 AM PDT:
Hello Google Bloggers. I noticed a lot of you seem to be unhappy with the advertisements on Yahoo MB e-mail. I just want to let you know, if you are interested, you can search "unlimited storage, it's coming" to find a comment site for that other company. Of the approximately 200 comments, aobut three quarters are from it's customers that are extremely unhappy with those ads. I am one of them. A lot of those customers switched to gmail. I may do the same by July 7
said on August 2, 2007 12:53 PM PDT:
I think if you are paying for a service you should not have to put up with ads unless you want them
said on August 31, 2007 6:02 PM PDT:
I saw one post here where someone said: Pay $20 a year and you won't have the ads in Yahoo Mail Beta.
I'm already a paying a lot more than that to be a ATT customer and I didn't ask for YAHOO to be partnered with them. Therefore I should not have to put up with annoying ads.
said on September 5, 2007 5:14 AM PDT:
I just installed Norton Internet Security 2007 "Ad Blocking", which is included in the "Add-On Pack", and it blocks all the ads in AT&T Yahoo email. I had switched to another provider, but went back and tested AT&T Yahoo after the install.
Yahoo sucks. The obly reason they are placing these huge obtrusive ads is because they are losing money, compared to Google. They see ads as 'easy money'.
aishu said on August 14, 2008 9:21 PM PDT:
i use adblock and flash block, it removes every ad but tht ad space is left vacant. which means i still have less space for mails, this whole thing is so irritating :((
said on September 25, 2008 7:02 PM PDT:
I haven't found any way to block these ads. Please help me.
said on October 30, 2008 8:02 PM PDT:
I have been a long time yahoo mail user. Now with the ads, especially dating ads, are annoying and defeat the enjoyment of the email. I opened another account on gmail. If Yahoo does not remove all the ads, I will permanently move to gmail. Why the heck Yahoo does not take care of its customers?
said on January 7, 2009 10:30 AM PDT:
thanks Ionut Alex Chitu !!!!!!!!
the script works great. It got rid off all the annoying ads
said on January 23, 2009 1:18 AM PDT:
The below link may help to remove adv in yahoomail...
http://knol2share.blogspot.com/2008/12/faster-yahoo-mail-how-to-disable.html
Cheers
said on February 1, 2009 1:11 PM PDT:
For security reasons, I'm told by ATT, I can no longer have my two email accounts on one home page. Now signing in and out of each, added to the new extra slow speed feature, managing my email is like having old dial up. Very progressive of ATT!@#?
said on March 4, 2009 5:13 AM PDT:
ads are a great obstacles for the user so,I just hate yahoo.
Pat said on March 29, 2009 9:40 AM PDT:
Old grandmother here: I have used ATT for many years and am so irritated at them for trying to force me to use the "upgrade" which I don't like and by inundating me with big flashing ads right on top of what I am trying to see. Could we start a strike? Surely they need us as customers. I am ready to change.
said on March 31, 2009 3:46 PM PDT:
Middle-aged-mom here. I am totally disgusted with Yahoo and AT&T. When I go to open my e-mail I see nasty, graphic ads for erectile dysfunction pharmaceutical products...Vimax. These ads appear on paper when I print my e-mails. It is very embarrassing to show others printed e-mails that have inappropriate pictures on them. I have tried everything to eliminate these ads. I will not give up. I will try the above suggestions and let you know if anything works. If not, Grandma you and I will start a publicity event, including a strike boycott.
By the way, I'm not a prude. I believe in freedom of speech, understand the necessity of advertisments, but this is an invasion of my privacy.
said on April 19, 2009 10:01 AM PDT:
I have a paid Verizon yahoo account and it is very slow and full of ads and it sucks. I should not be getting ads with a paid account. i want to change from Verizon yahoo to Verizon Msn
The new Yahoo Mail, currently in beta, will be available to all users very soon. An evidence for that is the fact that Yahoo Mail started to display obtrusive ads: along with an animated flash in the right sidebar, you can now see huge ads (like the one for Vonage) that fill an entire page. Ironically, this ad is included in the Spam section.
