Ads are making me totally hate Yahoo! I understand why ads exist, and I can tolerate them up to a certain point. It’s only fair, after all, and I still read Salon, for heaven’s sakes. But on Yahoo! Mail, the ad-forcing has gotten to be intolerable. I can barely even access my email anymore, because some stupid javascript/flash bug makes any Yahoo!Mail page redirect to a page with nothing but a flash banner ad, which never takes me back to my inbox.
Maybe I’m a little biased, because I love with Gmail and use it for about 95% of anything I do, but I held onto my Yahoo account, just because I’d used it for so long for various things, and because I’m wary of letting Google hold a monopoly on my information. But it seems more and more to be the case that Google well deserves its monopoly.
Plus they offer free POP, which means my Gmail can be downloaded and archived as it should. Yahoo! never offered free POP*, and the suckitude of their mail experience has only grown over the years, in stark contrast to Gmail’s steadily improving interface. So this new ad snafu is just the last straw. Basta!
*So the most annoying part of all this is how I can’t get my Yahoo! Mail off their servers and into my own data archives. Rah!
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