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

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:30AM 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.

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Awwww thats so cute by bazmail · 2015-11-24 00:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Yahoo! think its a player. Good for you Yahoo!.
Well done Marissa! by hcs_$reboot · 2015-11-24 00:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Marissa Mayer was an executive at Google. She went to Yahoo to get all their remaining users to move to gmail (why were they still using yahoo is an interesting question that's not in the scope of this post). Well done Marissa, we hope your bonus will be significant when you'll be back to Google.

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