No Yahoo Upgrade Then No Yahoo Mail!

Clearly Yahoo has some criteria that it is using to determine which email accounts that it demands to be " Upgraded " because not all of my yahoo accounts are affected. I've lost access to one account and on 8-27-11 I'll lose access to another.

Their new " Terms Of Service " and new " Privacy Policy " will make you sick to your stomach!!

I transferred all of my previous yahoo mail from two accounts to fastmail accounts and yahoo sent a " please verify " email to those accounts which means that they are tracking my email forwarding! I'm going to get away from using yahoo at all!! Yahoo The Proctologist!!

I'm just an old man that still resists being strong-armed by anyone!!

get a gmail account

I have switched to Gmail, Fastmail, and Lavabit!! I did not realize that yahoo was employing software to detect when I was on line, as well as everyone in my contacts list, to force ads down our throats!! I also never realized that yahoo had pages up requesting tons of personal information to also be used for marketing purposes.

When google changed its format to be more effective for broadband users they provided a html version for us folks still using dial up; with yahoo you either agree to their marketing terms or you lose access to your email. If you " Upgrade " yahoo they offer, but do not provide, a return to the old yahoo mail classic.

It's their company and they can run it any way that they want to; I just refuse to be a part of their " herd " anymore!!

I'm really sick of all this information-mining!!!

I see by the ads displayed, that Chromium is tracking everything I do online.....everything I buy..look at...search about....

I want to get away from all of this!

I recommend against Google and Chrome and Gmail, they all are designed to track you everywhere you go and feed Google all your personal info.

I personally use fastmail.

You do know about AdBlock Plus and/or similar ad-blocking browser plugins/extensions, right?

Mail.com seems awesome to me and it's pretty much the same user experience like on yahoo mail but i feel it a lot more customizable try it it's really awesome or does it have bad t&c too? lol

Yes, I use Adblock on my Seamonkey browser, which I use 95% of the time. I also added a file years ago that also helped in cutting down on ads. I do not watch commercial television because the ads make me sick. I suppose I am like a lot of people that never actually read the " service agreements " and " privacy policies " before agreeing to them. Being kicked off of the Yahoo Matrix is beginning to open my eyes. I have to admit that Yahoo has my dander, adrenaline, and testosterone flowing like a young man. I even registered a new domain: Resnullius.us ( Res Nullius is Latin for Nobody's Property )!!

Why does mail.com email take so very long to load up?

Ditto! [Well, that, plus I find all modern shows idiotic and/or offensive]

I've recently had to stop posting videos on youtube, too, as they now insist that one link their Gmail account or Yahoo account with Youtube...or force them to start an account.

I knew ten years ago that all these "free" services were going to be trojan horses!

A lot of people in this society will tolerate just about anything to get something for "free".

One of the things that really bugs me is they claim that all of this " spying " on people is done to focus their advertising which pays for the free email. I recently looked at yahoo's pages of requested information which is staggering to behold. Google now keeps asking me for a phone number ( so that I can, they claim, retrieve a lost password ). Have you turned off your automatically enrolled " yahoo update feature " that lets you know when any of your contacts are on line with their computers?? You are supposed to be distracted enough to " chat " with that person so more ads can come your way.
I do not go to airports and pretty soon I won't Yahoo either!!

Most of the tracking that Google and others do for ads is from java scripts. AdBlock will block the ads, but NoScript will stop the scripts that track you in the first place.

The best thing about NoScript is that it stops a lot of other bs from running that slows down your internet experience.

I'm not the only one on the Internet having an attitude with Yahoo! I was exposed today this website:
http://gethuman.com/

This website will get you the company phone numbers that will enable you to talk to a live human being!!

Two other things that might help:
When I visit email or forum sites, I turn off "load images automatically"
Also, on my email sites, I click on "basic...for slow connections". That helps to prevent some, if not all, scripts. I was just told this by some os coders.

If you want a "free" webmail service, it will be ad funded in one way or another (targeted ads, scanning, etc). If you don't want that, then you will have to pay and host your own email. That also depends on the people you're corresponding with also not using ad funded webmail - as your correspondence with them will be scanned... if that's a problem - try using a mail client with GnuPG encryption or write a letter and put it in the post.

Then don't use chromium...

As to yahoo, they're a joke. I switched from yahoo about a week ago (after being with them about 2 months) - just recently it got that bad that I could only log in using firefox if I cleared the browser cache first and at times it wouldn't log out properly - even the ads weren't working properly... I had to use chrome just to get to my email - and that was just in winblows at work...

As to gmail the best way to deal with them is to use their service, but with an alternative search engine, e.g. DuckDuckGo. google's services are designed so that the user remains logged into the google "bubble" and does all of their searching and emailing from there - which is how they build up a profile on the person.

Caravel, your experience is what I am hearing from others! In the Yahoo " Upgrade Request " was the mention of the need to use a Firefox browser, which I never do in my Ubuntu os. I'm switching all my yahoo email accounts to fastmail and paying $4.95 a year per account. ( one is free ) I'm leaving my newsfeeds in Google but everything else is going into Fastmail eventually! If Yahoo had informed me that if I did not upgrade I would be denied access to my email I would have been able to save all the stuff that I lost. I wonder how many more people are totally fed up with Yahoo enough to give up on them?