Willie Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 Or is it just my computer? When I start the computer in the morning I get a message in the middle of the screen where the icons show that says: Your Windows license will expire soon You need to activate Windows in settings Go to settings.....Close So if I click on close it lets me open Google Chrome just as normal.....however....I then get another box that says: Looks like ad blocker on Go to ad free Unblock ads Dismiss and take me to Basic Mail If I click on the last about Basic Mail.....I am now looking at a new format for mail which i DO NOT like. I have tried signing out of Yahoo, reentering it but the same mail message comes on screen. When I go to the setting symbol, there is nothing there that I can change to affect this! If I use the back button, it will take me to the original mail format, then after a few minutes, I get the ad blocker message again..... Does anyone have a "cure" for this? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringal Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 This is just another sleazy attempt to introduce ads to your email. I've been getting it regularly and refuse the "opportunity" to unblock ads. Just hang in there requesting to go to basic email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Posted May 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 Gringal...but I don't want basic mail...there are features missing. This only happens in my laptop...my Fire n fon are fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringal Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 27 minutes ago, Willie said: Gringal...but I don't want basic mail...there are features missing. This only happens in my laptop...my Fire n fon are fine! Which features are missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrod Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 They're updating, for a fee of $3.49 US per month, to get rid of the ads. Basic Yahoo mail will lose features...it did for me this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafterbr Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 If I go to yahoo mail first, usually the new mail format appears. If so I go to my yahoo home page and click mail from there. The old mail format than appears. I think there are differences depending on computer and software. I'm no expert but I am getting tired of yahoo changing the mail format all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcscats Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 I watched a really smart guy crack my yahoo account and my hotmail account. He couldn't break my Gmail account. I walked away from both and never looked back. Yahoo has a really bad reputation in the tech world. Yahoo groups is the only reason to deal with anything yahoo at all and yes we know you don't want to deal with changing email addresses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Posted May 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 Gringal.... I no longer see an ad at the top of my inbox.....but there is a window on the right saying features are missing...... among those is the one of the ease of forwarding messages and erasing the "from" Plus all my inbox is no longer on one scroll-able page but now only 25 appear at a time Also , this happens ONLY on my laptop!!!! Very strange. It is more time consuming to use it & I should not be blackmailed into skipping annoying, unwanted ads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringal Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 When Yahoo started the blackmailing, I began to use my Gmail account as much as possible and only get a few long standing contacts on Yahoo mail. I resent the blackmailing attempts BIG TIME!!!👿 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 You don't have to change your email address to use a different mail client. Gmail can get your Yahoo mail for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringal Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Curmudgeon said: You don't have to change your email address to use a different mail client. Gmail can get your Yahoo mail for you. I've had my Gmail for years. How does your suggestion work and what needs to be done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostlylost Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 My yahoo mail has been the same since the late 90's Nothing has changed for me in a long time. Every feature still works including calendar & notepad. I use Chrome as my browser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted May 5, 2020 Report Share Posted May 5, 2020 On 5/4/2020 at 11:30 AM, gringal said: I've had my Gmail for years. How does your suggestion work and what needs to be done? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6078445?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted May 5, 2020 Report Share Posted May 5, 2020 Although my primary email address is on gmail , my backup is on Yahoo, and it working just like it always has, very well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringal Posted May 5, 2020 Report Share Posted May 5, 2020 37 minutes ago, johanson said: Although my primary email address is on gmail , my backup is on Yahoo, and it working just like it always has, very well. Mine is working as it always has, except that the Yahoo account is doing its darndest to persuade me to allow ads. One of us will give up eventually. Not me.😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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