Karlotta Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 This is the 3rd time in 4 weeks that my computer, for no reason at all, switched from Yahoo USA home page, to Yahoo Mexico. I have had Mike the computer guy come out twice already, unfortunately he is out of town until Monday. Anybody else having this problem with Yahoo home page? Any ideas how to fix it? It's really beginning to upset me now. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattoleriver Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Go to your Yahoo home page. (I find that by opening Yahoo Mail then clicking on home.) At the top right corner of your screen there will be a Mexican flag. Click on that flag and a drop-down menu will appear. Click on the U.S. flag. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PULELEHUA Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Karlotta: Yahoo probably has some random scanning of incoming ISP addresses and when it does and you are accessing Yahoo, Yahoo suddenly recognizes that you are in Mexico and tries to give you what you are presumed to want (but don't.) Using a virtual private network such as Strong, HMA, etc. pretty much eliminates the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xena Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 I have Yahoo open onto my email page and never use home. It is in English. I went to Home just now and it was in Spanish. I changed the flag and it is (for now) in English. Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Menudo Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Whenever you clear cookies it will go to Yahoo MX. At the bolometer right of the page you can click the MX flag and then click the icon of US yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Menudo Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 No, I don't know what a bolometer is either. Try "bottom" in its place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlotta Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Thanks George, it worked!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 I believe that Yahoo and other sites like it (such as outlook.com) refresh their IP links regularly in a (poor) effort to track and prevent hack attacks, thus they are frequently renewing their country identifiers. And when they change any features of their web pages, the same thing. (As well as the cookie issues mentioned.) If you get to the correct language page, you can set it as your Home Page and it will remain in your language of choice until the next major upgrade on their part. I do have lots of clients who have their web pages "zoomed in", and therefore cannot see the flag in the upper right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doberwoman Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Karlotta: Yahoo probably has some random scanning of incoming ISP addresses and when it does and you are accessing Yahoo, Yahoo suddenly recognizes that you are in Mexico and tries to give you what you are presumed to want (but don't.) Using a virtual private network such as Strong, HMA, etc. pretty much eliminates the problem. yes, it has! I had problems to open my USA yahoo mail....because by default this computer and yahoo bring me to méxico, and I have to look for yahoo USA and then log in....it is a pain in the neck. Two months ago, they never let me to access to my other USA yahoo account. I had to open another.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doberwoman Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 what a bolometer is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerGuy Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Keep in mind that all websites know where we are by our IPs unless we use a VPN or some type of IP blocker. Most don't care; secure websites (https) use the info for a variety of reasons, but it is usually only Microsoft and Yahoo that cause these constant switcheroo problems. There is always a way around it without having to resort to VPN or blocking, though, and especially not having to get a new email address...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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