Batu69 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Yahoo is reportedly prohibiting users from accessing its email service if a browser is installed with ad-blocker software.First noticed by Digiday on an Adblock Plus forum, a user trying to sign on into his Yahoo Mail account via Google Chrome one morning was greeted with what seemed to be a message stating that the user's mail cannot be displayed due to ad-blocking software being present. The message, shown above, is asking the user to disable the program so it can finally proceed with displaying the user's email.The Yahoo Mail URL displays a "reason=ADBLK_TRAP" message, making it less like an isolated case. Many others in the forum have experienced the same issue, some providing temporary workarounds to keep using the service without sacrificing the ad-block program.Digiday notes the growing number of websites that are locking users out from accessing their content if they have an ad-blocker program installed. Some websites, if not completely blocking users, place notices around the website asking for the disabling of ad-blocker programs installed.“They’re likely testing this particular approach, banning ad blocker users, on their email service because they know their users will be forced to disable their ad blocker if they want to check their emails within their web browser,” said Tom Yeomans, CEO of Yavli, a company that creates technology that combats ad-blocker software, in an interview with Digiday. “Their users’ email account content are unique to them, so it’s different from news content where they can visit a competing website to get a same or similar experience.”Back in September, a similar issue was recorded, regarding YouTube's act of making users watch full-length ads if an ad-blocker was installed. However, it was later found to be a bug in the system. While this seemed to be the case, the response we got from our readers just proves how important ad-blocking software is to them.Commenting on the issue, Yahoo has recently stated that the blocking issue was just a test in an effort to develop "new product experiences", therefore, only some could experience being locked out of their mail. Source: Digiday via Engadget | Image via Portnoyd on Adblock PlusArticle source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 there is no such problem if you have this a problem, then disable the popup using AdBlock ie add Your own rule.It's that simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Yahoo restricts access to your mail if an ad-blocker is installedNot here — it does not. :Dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngrySithLord Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Very interesting, let's wait for Google :fun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davmil Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 I truly wish Yahoo would go ahead and die. I just hate them. For reasons I'll never understand, AT&T outsources their email to them. This has created no end of trouble for me and clients as many, many SPAM filters are set to block anything that even remotely smells of Yahoo mail and have to be tweaked in both directions (on the other hand, that's $$ for me fixing/writing/explaining we're not spammers<G>).It is so bad that I personally go ahead and get extorted $18/year for their 'professional' webmail service (lightly cloaked as an AT&T service) as it gets rid of the ads and adds a few more useful features and a tee-tiny hope of support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 My near twenty one (21) years of yahoo emails I check via mailwasher pro.I receive to my thirty plus (30) Yahoo emails one (1) email approx. per month.They are usually spam so mailwasher deletes them.Yahoo has really gone down the toilet in the last seven (7) years.They stopped chat rooms, good advertisement resource, then dominoes and pool (java).Yahoo will probably be gone in a few years.I know a lot of i.s.p's use Yahoo mail for customers, B.T. for one I know as they were my i.s.p. once, however, Google could easily take that mantle and Yahoo will be flushed away.Yahoo are telling you that if you use an adblocker then you can get stuffed.There are thousands of free websites that offer free email accounts.If you go to for example www.000webhost.com you can create a free website and create numerous free emails with your website name.Just make sure you log in to control panel weekly to keep you site active.Back to Yahoo they should had taken the bid from M$ all those years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantry123 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 well i'm also not experiencing any of the issues above mentionedbut if something like this pops up the ANTI ADBLOCK KILLER shall take care thansk to REEKregards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I don't know people still use yahoo ? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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