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I don't have an "ad blocker" per se, I am using NoScript under Firefox to selectively block outside/unknown websites. Which, yes, can include arbitary advertisers, but I can and do allow specific, TRUSTED advertisers through. Drive-by downloads have been a fact of internet life for decades now, and if you think that I (or anybody else!) should expose themselves to that kind of malware attacks, you've got another thing coming. This is how I've kept my pc's absolutely virus free throughout my decades-long www history browsing (I've been a Yahoo.com user since 2008!), and I sure as **** ain't giving it up now. I am MORTALLY OFFENDED by the fact that absolutely ZERO WARNING was given, ZERO OPPORTUNITY to OFFLOAD *MY* DATA, MY crucial emails and close my account BEFORE this went down -- and let me tell you, it's on the table now! I may unmask now, to grant you that data you crave, Yahoo, but BASK IN IT...that week's, or month's worth, of advertising data IS ALL YOU WILL EVER GET BEFORE I CLOSE THE ACCOUNT. Sometimes "FREE" is too high of a cost, when strings like this get attached!
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I ALSO DO NOT WANT A F__KING AI "HELPING" ME WITH MY MAIL (AND HELPING ITSELF TO MY DATA)!
The problem with allowing Yahoo (or any "server" site") to indiscriminately allow ads is that bad actors inject malware that way. And that Yahoo, or Youtube, or Excite (remember them?) disavows all responsibility for SERVING that malware (that they FORCED us to accept!). You. Don't. Take. Responsibility. When it is now in fact yours BECAUSE you forced us, the Users, to watch those **** ads! And even if you were WILLING to accept that legal responsibility, its impossible in practice because you, like everyone else out there, don't have (and claim to not have the budget for) a properly-staffed Customer Service Department anymore (that isn't an idiot AI!) -- hey, how about you pay the C-suite a little less, and capitalize your infrastructre instead? They'll still be rich as sin but you'll have a better product!