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Yahoo scanning our emails to send us ads
yahoo mail ^ | 7-8-13 | self

Posted on 07/08/2013 7:59:44 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer

Yahoo mail users are now forced to accept our emails being scanned so they can send us ads. If you dont accept, you cant access your email.

(Excerpt) Read more at help.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: privacy; scan
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To: MichaelCorleone
Prior to the update Yahoo mail did not attempt to cover costs/generate revenue through email scanning or outright charging a fee.

Odd. I've been paying for Yahoo! Plus mail for 7 years now. Main reason was so I could get POP3 mail services from Yahoo! for use with Windows Outlook Express mail.

21 posted on 07/08/2013 8:18:16 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I just don’t know. I need experts to do the footwork for the likes of me. I first heard of it listening to the big fella on the radio.


22 posted on 07/08/2013 8:18:32 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I use G-Mail and Yahoo Mail. I am not going to worry about what some twit sees if they look at my mail.
There are enough REAL issues to be worried about in the Obamination. Besides, I am not even there.


23 posted on 07/08/2013 8:20:47 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Reagan.com sounds good, my only issue with it would be that it most certainly would be a magnet for the snoops. $40 seems reasonable.


24 posted on 07/08/2013 8:23:38 PM PDT by madison10
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To: MichaelCorleone

My how time flies. I just looked up my Yahoo! account info, and I’ve been paying $19.99 per year since March of 2002.

No price increase in 10 years ain’t too shabby.


25 posted on 07/08/2013 8:25:43 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

” I’ve been paying $19.99 per year since March of 2002.”
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For Yahoo? How does one do that? What are you paying for?
I use many things on Yahoo, even their tool bar, but never heard of paying anything.


26 posted on 07/08/2013 8:32:14 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: RobertClark

Not exactly free. I’ve been paying $10/year for extra storage on Yahoo Classic (no longer available) for a long time. The new, free Yahoo Mail is horrible: not user friendly and lacking features such as spell check and variable type styles and sizes.


27 posted on 07/08/2013 8:35:08 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: RobertClark
Anything that is free is worth what you paid for it.

Yahoo Classic, which they just discontinued, was quite acceptable.

28 posted on 07/08/2013 8:36:35 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: AlexW
For Yahoo? How does one do that? What are you paying for?

How? By upgrading to Yahoo! Mail Plus.

What am I paying for? I get POP3 access, no ads, and can create temporary email alias accounts that can be later termintated, allowing you to register at certain websites, then kill the email addy and not get spammed.

29 posted on 07/08/2013 8:39:52 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

“Odd. I’ve been paying for Yahoo! Plus mail for 7 years now.”

Aside from the fact you’re missing my point, what about regular yahoo mail? Have people been paying a fee for that as well? I’ve never heard of it (but then again I don’t pay very close attention to issues concerning the Web).


30 posted on 07/08/2013 8:43:46 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: smokingfrog

Practically every free Email scans for keywords to display tagged ads.


31 posted on 07/08/2013 8:49:24 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Yo-Yo

90 percent of the spam that I get on Yahoo mail lands in the spam folder, so it does not interfere with my normal mail.
I just dump the spam folder a few times per week.
Normal Yahoo mail and G-Mail is all that I use now.


32 posted on 07/08/2013 8:56:33 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: luvbach1

My account has not changed and I have not received any notices from yahoo. Guess I am way down on the totem pole. I do not get very much important mail. Everyone uses Facebook to keep in touch. We use text messages with my family when we do not call. When everyone is busy working, it is easier for them to read a text.


33 posted on 07/08/2013 9:00:23 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Former MSM Viewer; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

34 posted on 07/08/2013 9:03:58 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
What about Reagan.com? It would be worth the money.

The instant the beta version of StartMail becomes available, I'm signing up.

35 posted on 07/08/2013 9:07:22 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408983,00.asp

http://free-email-services-review.toptenreviews.com/


36 posted on 07/08/2013 9:11:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: null and void

Total Paranoia = Perfect Awareness


37 posted on 07/08/2013 9:13:06 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I’m ready to change my e-mail provider. Does anyone here use nsa.gov?


38 posted on 07/08/2013 9:14:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: UB355
E-mail that goes to my outlook.com e-mail address drastically changes the ads I see all across the web. However, if I access the site via a privacy window that destroys all cookies, my advertising isn't immediately targeted exactly at me.

I do not get the same from gmail or yahoo, only from Outlook, and literally, it is instantaneous in how ads convert.

By the by, I use outlook.com for any ‘public’ e-mail signups - store rewards, picture e-mails from promotional events, etc. So if I access outlook.com with a browser, then visit anywhere else on the web, I suddenly switch over to ads for competing stores, Disney vacations, etc. Clear the cookies, and the ads go away until the next time I forget and access Outlook.com on an open browser window.

Your mileage may vary, but having had the same yahoo e-mail address for 11+ years and the same gmail address since the beta, I've never experienced such a dramatic shift in ads until I used outlook.

39 posted on 07/08/2013 9:15:57 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

And they are conveniently linked to your Ebay searches!


40 posted on 07/09/2013 12:02:40 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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