I’m Not Impressed With Rogers Yahoo Mail
Monday, November 17, 2008 22:54 | 1,451 viewsJust about a week ago now me ROGERS YAHOO! E-mail has started to display ads as seen below in the following image.
Rogers Yahoo Mail - Click yo embiggin'
I’m a paying customer, not a user that’s using their free service. To me this is basically spam to me. If I open up my paid e-mail account and I’m being subjected to advertisements, to me this is basically spam.
They have a link in the sidebar explaining about the advertisements, and it read, “Recently, Rogers and Yahoo! jointly introduced advertising content to the Rogers Yahoo! Mail service.”
So basically, they’re saying, there’s nothing you could have done or said to convince us not to flash advertisements in your (the paying customer) face. So screw you! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!
The worst part is when you’re trying to focus on reading an important e-mail (I try to focus, it makes it look like I can actually read) you have these flashy ads blinking and moving in the corner of your eye, distracting your from the real content you’re actually interested in. Like them ads selling pills to make your pecker bigger.
I get enough crap in my e-mail I try to ignore, and now I have to put up with this bullshit??
I went as far as telling them just how I feel about this, in a sorta nice way. Also asking them to implement a way to permanently turn them off. It has now been about 5 days since I sent that message.
I think it’s time to break open the Mozilla e-mail client. So Fuck You ROGERS YAHOO! E-mail!
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November 17th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Roll yer own, man. yahoo! spam filter sucks moose balls anyhow
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:15 am
I didn’t see any problem with the spam filter. Spam went to the spam folder like they should have. The occasional ones still got through, but those are obviously people spammers and not bot spammers.
I do feel that this is a low blow though. Fucking assholes!
If there was somebody other than Aliant, and somebody else who had the fasted ISP speeds, I would jump all over them.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Rogers sucks period. I have my cell-phone plan with them. Just because I left the phone in my jeans pocket, sent it through the entire wash, spin, rinse, extra spin cycle and then put it into the dryer on whites/hot heat, you’d think they’d give me a break and just give me a new phone. Nope had to sign up for another 3 year contract and got a stupid new phone anyway.
BTW, just won stereo headphones in the Commentluv contest. I’m still trying to find out why that file keeps popping up and doesn’t let you comment on my site.
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:21 am
@Larry – Congratulations Larry!
Shame they didn’t just GIVE you a new $300 phone for NOTHING! LOL
I just wish I had the time to go and comment on blogs all day long. Although I’m not working, you would think I would, but JOB hunting has taken over 24/7 at the moment.
I think it may have something to do with that particular file that I tell you it is. wp-momments-post.php. I don’t think that is an actual WP File, so it’s obviously a plug-in.
BTW, how many comments did you have to make to get that prize?
November 18th, 2008 at 1:22 am
BTW FOLKS! Let this be a lesson to you all. Commenting here will win you prizes!
November 18th, 2008 at 1:26 am
@Larry – I dropped my brand new laptop state of the art system and it went down the sewers. It’s gone. Can yo9u send me another one please Mr. Computer Company. LOL Larry. Funny Mush you are!
November 18th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Wow – that really does stink for a paid service! You shouldn’t have to deal with ads. I can understand for free services but not for paid ones. I think that is just being a little (as in a LOT) greedy on their part.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am
ah, didn’t think of looking in a plug-in for that file — what a Mr. Smarty you are! I don’t think I commented on that many sites — just picked a few registered contest sites at random and bingo, all of a sudden there I was a prize winner.
Would send you a new laptop in a minute if you didn’t live on the edge of the earth — just kidding hee hee — can’t afford a new one for myself. Be good for the next month and maybe Santa will stuff you sock this year.
Larrys last blog post..Matrix passport
November 18th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I guess it depends: are you explicitly paying for email service – or are you receiving free email because you pay for internet service?
Because if you’re paying for email, they should take their ads and shove them up their ass.
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November 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@teeni – My thoughts exactly.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@Larry – Well, at least the thought was there.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
@Jason – They advertise it as part of the service that I’m paying for.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Then I consider them spammers. Jerks.
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
To block the Rogers/Yahoo Email Ads. The best solution in my opinion (if you still want to use the Rogers/Yahoo Mail Login) is to use Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and go to the add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=adblock+plus&cat=all
enter the search for “adblock plus” and install it to your Firefox, then login to your Rogers/Yahoo Email and “bingo” the ads are gone. More info on adblock plus at http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
If you are an Internet Explorer user The hosts file in Windows XP which is located:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Open the “hosts” file in Notebook, and add:
127.0.0.1 ad.yieldmanager.com
127.0.0.1 yieldmanager.com
This will remove the ads on the right side, but it doesn’t stop the page from being made smaller from the right hand side…. but at least you aren’t bombarded by ads!!
More info about this at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Cheers,
GPrice
November 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
@Jason – And I agree,
November 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
@GPrice – But the space would still be there, which is one thing I dis-approve of. It takes up to much real estate, and although it allows you to click it off, it pops back open when you move to the next e-mail. It a real pain in the ass IMO.