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Title: Yahoo Mail begins blocking users with ad block enabled Post by: HCK on November 22, 2015, 03:00:18 pm Yahoo Mail begins blocking users with ad block enabled
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Yahoo may be hoping that access to your email is more important than freedom from advertisements.</p><p>Some users of AdBlock Plus have reported that they can’t access Yahoo Mail (https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42447) in Chrome or Firefox on the desktop. Instead of seeing their inboxes, the get the following error message: “Uh oh… We are unable to display Yahoo Mail. Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo Mail.”</p><p>The reports, first spotted by Digiday (http://digiday.com/brands/yahoo-mail-blocking-ad-block-users-accessing-email/), surfaced in the AdBlock Plus forums on Thursday. Andrei Herasimchuk, a former Yahoo designer who now works at Twitter, also claims to be blocked from his inbox (https://twitter.com/Trenti/status/667200354061152256).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3006981/data-center-cloud/yahoo-mail-begins-blocking-users-with-ad-block-enabled.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Yahoo Mail begins blocking users with ad block enabled (http://www.macworld.com/article/3006981/data-center-cloud/yahoo-mail-begins-blocking-users-with-ad-block-enabled.html#tk.rss_all) |