Rant: Yahoo Mail

[diamonback68]

And Google isn't?

Never said they aren't as bad or possibly even worse. I avoid them both like the plague. Anyone who uses either one is just asking to give up as much information as possible to them about themselves. YMMV

 

[Ogandydancer]

I agree with JOHNSW go with outlook. Much better than anything gmail or anyone else has going.

When I first signed up with this internet provider (Clearwire) they had their own mail program. Then they started screwing things up with google mail program and I have hated it ever since.

I detest anything that has to do with google/gmail or whatever else they have.

 

[Calaveras Slim]

Don't feel bad. I have had the same email addy with yahoo.com for 12-15 years and now they tell me that email addy doesn't exist and I can't get my email.

 

[Arik]

Don't feel bad. I have had the same email addy with yahoo.com for 12-15 years and now they tell me that email addy doesn't exist and I can't get my email.

I had the same problem with Yahoo. So i just stopped using them. I hate using the my old work email. It takes for ever to open anything due to all the flash player stuff

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

 

[LVSteve]

I moved over to Gmail. I hated it at first. But if you can take the time to watch some youtube videos on how to really customize it, it is the best. Takes some getting used to, but it is super reliable, the easiest mail to search past content, and very smartly put together (once you figure it out).

...and your final statement might be a deal breaker. By his own admission my BIL is not all that computer savvy. If I tell him about Yahoo changing their Terms of Service last year so they could trawl your emails for keywords to direct ads, he will go ballistic.

 

[Squarebutt]

It's gotten very difficult to use Yahoo mail since they hired Marissa as the new CEO. Can't easily scrub the sender's name off an email you want to forward, can't find responses among the entries in a long string, etc. And now if I check a Craigslist ad for a ball-peen hammer, soon I have 29 ads for ball-peen hammers all over the screen. My wife and kids all use gmail, but I'm not going there, either. Need to find a simple system that doesn't sell my info.

 

[ErnieDeBord]

I use EarthLink, Had it for bout 12 years or so. I pay about 4 dollars a month for it and the webpage, I am used to it, very good support. Its has always been trouble free, regards Ernie

 

[radar1972]

I keep a yahoo mail account as my "throw away" email address. Anytime an email in needed and I don't want to muddy up my real email account I use my throw away yahoo account. It's about all it's good for.

Same for me. I just log into it about once a month and delete everything.

 

[kaaskop49]

Me again, Steve. No one has mentioned the too-often down periods. Today, I absolutely could not send an e-mail, either by appending it to an earlier one or by sending an original.

P.S. HELP! I have 2 gmail boxes. I cannot access the one as the other comes up all the time. How can I access the unreachable box, please? Thank you.

 

[-db-]

Yahoo email down again for the last hour or so. I guess it's time for me to switch to gmail.

 

[bobf]

Free is good but my own domain is so trouble free I won't be giving it up.

 

[LVSteve]

My brother-in-law's computer was "fixed" by the Geek Squad. They installed Google Chrome, and this allowed him to download his pictures.

Trouble is, now Yahoo and Google both have their fists where the sun doesn't shine. I would have put Firefox on there for him. I might yet have to as a job application he is trying to fill in still seem balky on either browser.

 

[speedyquad]

i'm surprised that no one has mentioned switching to mozilla thunderbird to get away from the yahoo/gmail/hotmail kind of email services..