I like the Classic Yahoo home page. I’m familiar with the layout and I enjoy what it has to offer. However, I feel that by Yahoo not updating the news etc, that I am being blackmailed into accepting their new format. I suppose that ultimately, it’s a numbers game. If enough people are forced into accepting the change, then, it will go ahead. However, I feel like it’s a bit like changing the format of my regular newspaper; if it becomes so far removed from the original, I may aswell change newspapers! Maybe Yahoo assumes that people are unlikely to switch for fear of changing their email address. Well I hope that they taken into consideration, that if someone does go to the trouble of changing their email account, it would be nigh-on impossible to get them to change back again. Personally, I also hope that enough people will resist the change, or perhaps they will move to an alternative provider. Message to Yahoo: Don’t let your economic ambitions outweigh your customer’s loyalty.
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My ATT email account is connected with Yahoo and I have to constantly look at advertising on my e-mail pages even though I pay to have ATT internet service. A big JOKE!!
Yahoo sucks.
Lolita on October 4th, 2009 at 6:25 pm | Link
Well, it’s FREE. Are the not allowed to cover their costs with advertising?
Yahoo new home page is a crab. Help me get out. I was deceived into it. Give me the classic home page.
Samuel on April 2nd, 2010 at 12:17 am | Link
The above comment is well put and accurately speaks for many of us who wouldn’t need much impetus to abandon Yahoo. Juvenile mentalities can find the new bells and whisles better elsewhere, and legions of us serious adults yearn for Classic Yahoo (before the personnel bloodbath). When a better browser comes along, as one surely will, many at Yahoo will be out selling used cars as the price for arrogance and indifference to users. Put it in your time capsules and mark it “guaranteed.” #
Robert Hardin on April 23rd, 2010 at 7:22 am | Link
For a lot of years I’ve been paying AT&T for an e-mail account. I have Verizon DSL.
I paid the $8 a month to AT&T for the e-mail only account so that my contacts would know how to e-mail me. I have used the AT&T account for a long time and it would be a hassle to switch. Plus some of the e-mails I receive are important security sensitive and I wouldn’t want to miss getting the e-mail.
Now that they are doing this Yahoo crap….I’m going to very actively pursue changing from AT&T. Yes Yahoo is free but I am paying AT&T for an e-mail account. Plus today they made the big switch over and for three hours I could not get Thunderbird to authenticate their SMTP server. I have a Contact Manager that I paid $700 for and that e-mail client could not authenticate. I almost lost a $4,600 commission over it.
Finally 10 minutes before the final bid, I switched all the settings back to ipostoffice and imailhost. I cold again receive/send e-mail. Now it isn’t supposed to work but for now….it is working.
I think that AT&T jumped the gun and they were having problems.
Still I am not about to pay almost $100 a year to look at Yahoo advertisements. They have their tech people saying the change over was so that the customer gets more storage space, better services, etc. BS! It is so that AT&T doesn’t have to run their own e-mail servers. They’ll still collect the revenue but it will be all profit.
The Yahoo reminds me far too much of AOL. That alone is enough to make me leave.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blacknblue2 on May 12th, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Link
The switch to Yahoo was one of the dumbest things ATT could have done. I am paying for email and now I have to look at yahoo spam plus the new mail program stinks. Do these people ever ask their customers what they want or do they just jamm things down their throat?
Anybody have an alternative?
Herb on June 5th, 2010 at 9:57 am | Link
I have already dumped Yahoo and am now using Hotmail and Gmail. I WILL NOT be forced into paying Yahoo to remove the ads that now take up most of the screen. Also, they have now totally screwed up the Contact list!!!
Ron Gandy on July 25th, 2010 at 3:14 am | Link
I had to pay $175.00 to have someone clean up my computer. The thing kept freezing and crashing. I do not know much about computer but was told that the advertisements were taking all of my space. I did not pay for advertisements and find them a disturbance. Does anyone know a good web site where I can continue to get my e-mail?
Jacqueline on August 18th, 2010 at 4:46 am | Link