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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.

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  1. Legality? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why would there be any question about the legality of this? Yahoo! doesn't have to allow you access to its service, and its now setting requirements to do so.

  2. Re:Awwww thats so cute by RogueyWon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo provides email services for quite a number of big ISPs. Certainly, the email services for BT (which is still, I think, the UK's largest ISP) are provided by Yahoo and just given a light BT-specific reskinning.

    So there might be quite a lot more people out there using Yahoo mail accounts than you would suspect. Some of them probably don't realise it themselves.

  3. A-ffecting. Jeez. by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2, Informative

    effecting only a "small number" of users

    You need to lern some properly English.

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  4. Ads from yahoo has a bad rep. by fuzzyf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did they forget this alreay?
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

    Or maybe they had an epiphany?
    CEO: "What do you mean some of our users didn't get infected?"