Yahoo scanning our emails to send us ads

yahoo mail ^ | 7-8-13 | self

[Former MSM Viewer]

Yahoo mail users are now forced to accept our emails being scanned so they can send us ads. If you dont accept, you cant access your email.

[Yo-Yo]

Prior to the update Yahoo mail did not attempt to cover costs/generate revenue through email scanning or outright charging a fee.

Odd. I've been paying for Yahoo! Plus mail for 7 years now. Main reason was so I could get POP3 mail services from Yahoo! for use with Windows Outlook Express mail.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I just don’t know. I need experts to do the footwork for the likes of me. I first heard of it listening to the big fella on the radio.

[AlexW]

I use G-Mail and Yahoo Mail. I am not going to worry about what some twit sees if they look at my mail.
There are enough REAL issues to be worried about in the Obamination. Besides, I am not even there.

[madison10]

Reagan.com sounds good, my only issue with it would be that it most certainly would be a magnet for the snoops. $40 seems reasonable.

[Yo-Yo]

My how time flies. I just looked up my Yahoo! account info, and I’ve been paying $19.99 per year since March of 2002.

No price increase in 10 years ain’t too shabby.

[AlexW]

” I’ve been paying $19.99 per year since March of 2002.”
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For Yahoo? How does one do that? What are you paying for?
I use many things on Yahoo, even their tool bar, but never heard of paying anything.

[luvbach1]

Not exactly free. I’ve been paying $10/year for extra storage on Yahoo Classic (no longer available) for a long time. The new, free Yahoo Mail is horrible: not user friendly and lacking features such as spell check and variable type styles and sizes.

[luvbach1]

Anything that is free is worth what you paid for it.

Yahoo Classic, which they just discontinued, was quite acceptable.

[Yo-Yo]

For Yahoo? How does one do that? What are you paying for?

How? By upgrading to Yahoo! Mail Plus.

What am I paying for? I get POP3 access, no ads, and can create temporary email alias accounts that can be later termintated, allowing you to register at certain websites, then kill the email addy and not get spammed.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Odd. I’ve been paying for Yahoo! Plus mail for 7 years now.”

Aside from the fact you’re missing my point, what about regular yahoo mail? Have people been paying a fee for that as well? I’ve never heard of it (but then again I don’t pay very close attention to issues concerning the Web).

[matt04]

Practically every free Email scans for keywords to display tagged ads.

[AlexW]

90 percent of the spam that I get on Yahoo mail lands in the spam folder, so it does not interfere with my normal mail.
I just dump the spam folder a few times per week.
Normal Yahoo mail and G-Mail is all that I use now.

[MamaB]

My account has not changed and I have not received any notices from yahoo. Guess I am way down on the totem pole. I do not get very much important mail. Everyone uses Facebook to keep in touch. We use text messages with my family when we do not call. When everyone is busy working, it is easier for them to read a text.

[null and void]

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[null and void]

What about Reagan.com? It would be worth the money.

The instant the beta version of StartMail becomes available, I'm signing up.

[Revolting cat!]

http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408983,00.asp

http://free-email-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

[Hardraade]

Total Paranoia = Perfect Awareness

[Revolting cat!]

I’m ready to change my e-mail provider. Does anyone here use nsa.gov?

[kingu]

E-mail that goes to my outlook.com e-mail address drastically changes the ads I see all across the web. However, if I access the site via a privacy window that destroys all cookies, my advertising isn't immediately targeted exactly at me.

I do not get the same from gmail or yahoo, only from Outlook, and literally, it is instantaneous in how ads convert.

By the by, I use outlook.com for any ‘public’ e-mail signups - store rewards, picture e-mails from promotional events, etc. So if I access outlook.com with a browser, then visit anywhere else on the web, I suddenly switch over to ads for competing stores, Disney vacations, etc. Clear the cookies, and the ads go away until the next time I forget and access Outlook.com on an open browser window.

Your mileage may vary, but having had the same yahoo e-mail address for 11+ years and the same gmail address since the beta, I've never experienced such a dramatic shift in ads until I used outlook.

[rawcatslyentist]

And they are conveniently linked to your Ebay searches!