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It appears yahoo mail does not like the fact that I have a free "ad-blocker" that blocks there annoying ads. They have been asking me to whitelist them for some time now, a request I have ignored for years. Well, today I noticed some features missing from my already stripped down free version of their mail service, with a note from yahoo basically demanding monthly payments. They basically want me to unblock their ads so that they can charge me every month to block their ads! Somehow, I have a feeling they will block some ads, but not all. They will then most likely offer to block all ads for an even higher fee!
Is there a better free email service with no ads, or am I expecting too much from a "free" email service. I guess I should realize "free" usually comes at a cost.
Yahoo gave me 3 options in order to quit holding my email hostage:
1) Pay a monthly fee
2) Whitelist them
3) Done Whitelist
Can someone explain what "done whitelist" means?
Anyhow, thanks for letting me "rant on", as I have lots of extra time nowadays with all this self quarenteening.
crazydoug
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Your internet provider ought to have something in their system you can use.
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I use 3 different browsers on a Win 10 computer. I strictly use Google Chrome for email accounts like Yahoo/ATT. Because both Google and Yahoo have little { to no respect } for your privacy . I do not use Google Chrome to search or browse the internet, just for junk email accounts and thus I can enable cookies with no adblocker. Therefore the tracking and annoying is limited to just the email accounts.
I search and browse internet with Duck Duck Go in Opera or Firefox. Cookies blocked, full adblockers on.
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Doug, iīve been using Gmail from Google for years now, and am very happy with it.
Itīs free, easy to set up, easy to use.
If deciding to test it out, i found this test for username availability,.
Then you can find one that works for you ahead of signing up, to avoid frustrations.
LINK EDITED OUT DUE TO GILīS MALWARE ALERT BELOW -
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My AVG scan says this link for gmail availability has malware that it had to sequester.
This one: checkgmailavailability I recommend against using it.
I believe the safest way is to simply go to gmail and you will know right away if your requested name is taken.
go to www.gmail.com
You will be able to try user names until you find one available that you like.
For example, I just now set up JensenSteamEngines@gmail.com It took me about 30 seconds.
Gil
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Dough GMail is the bomb,
I use it as my throwaway email, the only thing it doesn't like is sitting behind a VPN, otherwise I've been abusing gmail for spam and other things for years now.
My son and I have our own server which we pay for every couple of years so email is never an issue.
Gmail is pretty easy to set up, you just need to sit down and tick everything you don't want it to inform you off.
It will sync, do the cloud thing, etc etc etc. You will be informed about mothers Hubbard's cottage and the status of her witches britches if you don't switch stuff off.
My son has been using Gmail for his throwaway for years as well.
I wouldn't use Yahoo if they payed me.
Good luck
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Thanks for the info everyone. Gmail is probably the way I will go. Just hate the thought of contacting evryone with the change of addresse. Good time to weed out all the unwanted contacts though.
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I always found yahoo rubbish.
I first used the email system given by my provider, had no problems with that.
The only problem with that, is that the email address only can be used as long as you are with that provider.
But it's sometimes wise to change your provider, as I did about a year ago.
And than you have a big problem, all accounts that address was attached to, all people who are in contact with you must be notified.
And still after a year I now and than have difficulties with that.
So an IT specialist advised me to use a gmail address.
And up until now gmail works perfect for me and every member of the family can have their own address.
Should I now decide to change provider, I still can keep my address.
So to me gmail was the perfect solution.
And if you think that non of the providers is using your data for commercial proposes you will be very disappointed.
The moment you come onto the net some cookies are dropped onto your computer.
And no privacy act can keep control over that.
What really is a nuisance lately is the spam I receive from phony postal serves.
Crooks send you false mails that you need to pay for customs etc. using names of existing postal providers.
Luckily the system drops them strait into the spam files.
But these mails can be so confusing as I receive a lot of parcels.
But mails being so realistic like that, will rip off people, special older people who already have great trouble using a computer.
Top of the bill was a phone call, probably coming from India.
This guy was threatening me that my computer was going to crash, if I didn't use his services.
So I played bluff poker, told him I was an IT specialist trekking his call, I already could see he was for the Bombay area and I still needed a few second to pinpoint his address and than would reporting him to the police, strange enough he lay down the phone
Bombay was a wild guess, I recently red an article that most of these phony calls come from there
Cheers,
Danny
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