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  1. If you don't stop all of these ads for ad blockers bombarding my screen, I am leaving Yahoo for good.

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    Thomas DeWitt commented  · 

    I feel exactly the same way. I use the Firefox browser and recently opened an AOL free email account, no ads there.

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    Thomas DeWitt commented  · 

    We have had a business email address for longer than I have been employed at this job, which is 10 years, and never had a problem until recently. I installed an ad blocker nearly a year ago and, again, no problem until last week when a message appeared on screen asking if I wanted to continue ad blocking and go back to basic mail or unblock the ads and continue with the mail as it had been for years. I wasn't aware that I wasn't using basic mail, in fact, when it switched many years ago, from whatever mail it was then to what it is now, it wasn't an "upgrade" or considered "pro" it was simply the newest version of email. I don't recall being given the option to switch back after a period of time but, regardless, it's been this version of email for many years then, suddenly, ad blocking is not permitted on this version and you are switched back to the archaic, antiquated version. In my opinion, corporate greed is ruining the internet. I refuse to use Chrome because every page is littered with ads, so much so, that you sometimes can't tell where the article is you were reading and are unsure what to click on to advance to the next section of an article because it is probably another ad you are clicking on, which is, I'm sure, the intent of placing the ad where it is. It's deceitful and disgusting. I can't imagine there are too many people that buy products thru an ad like that, not enough to justify the number of ads on a given page. Installing an ad blocker is like breathing fresh air, it's SO nice not to be bombarded with ads. So nice, in fact, that I opened an AOL account so that I can phase out our Yahoo mail account. If you want to force ads down people's throats, your customers will eventually leave and go somewhere that doesn't. There is too much competition out there that doesn't feel the need to ruin one of the greatest inventions in history. Mozilla Firefox. Enough said. You should take a look at that company and get some ideas from them. It's proof positive that a company can be successful without jamming the internet and people up with ads.

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