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Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-mail-for-you dept.

JoeyRox writes: Yahoo is running an A/B test that blocks access to Yahoo email if the site detects that the user is running an Ad Blocker. Yahoo says that this a trial rather than a new policy, effecting only a "small number" of users. Those lucky users are greeted with a message that reads "Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo Mail." Regarding the legality of the move, "Yahoo is well within its rights to do so," said Ansel Halliburton an attorney at Kronenberger Rosenfeld who specializes in Internet law.

2 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Awwww thats so cute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've had my Yahoo! account since the beginning, and it has been hacked exactly 0 times. You can't really call it hacked when your fucktard acquaintances set passwords like "Password1234".

  2. Re:All while adding ads ... by gstoddart · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I find that very hard to believe. Is your ISP blocking all other SMTP and IMAP traffic?

    Basically you're a moron you didn't read the rest of what I wrote and now you're making up stupid things?

    So, Yahoo is something I use at my sufferance ... snip ... I don't use them for anything but that specific email that I'm supposed to keep for my ISP

    No, it's not the only fucking email I have access to.

    But, hey, go be stupid. That's what the internet is for, apparently.

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