Yahoo Mail

[The Mad Monk]

I have been using Yahoo Mail for some time. The annoying thing - for me - is that in the empty 'mail boxes', drafts, spam, junk, deleted etc, I normally get videos of American politicians playing - sometimes Donald Trump! Which i find very irritating.

How can I stop it, or change it to something more soothing?

[bitchstewie]

Gmail.

[The Mad Monk]

Gmail keeps telling me I can't have the name I want.

Plus Lady Monk is not keen on the idea of switching. Sigh.

[bitchstewie]

Choose a different name then.

Or maybe look at registering your own domain name and use that with something like Gmail.

Can't help with the wife

[NDA]

Do you pay for your Yahoo mail?

I think I do - a small sum - and I don't have anything appearing that shouldn't.

[paulguitar]

The Mad Monk said:

Lady Monk

Is that even legal?

[The Mad Monk]

NDA said:

Do you pay for your Yahoo mail?

I think I do - a small sum - and I don't have anything appearing that shouldn't.

My Yahoo is free.

When your spam of drafts folders are empty what appears on the screen. At the moment, I have The President of The Yonited States.

And I would really rather I didn't.

I realise this is, as they say, a first world problem, and I can very quickly click on something else, but I wish it were different. If the answer is "no you can't" then I will have to put up with it.

I have just had one of my famous brain waves! Why don't I leave one un-deleted item in each folder?

[NDA]

The Mad Monk said:

My Yahoo is free.

When your spam of drafts folders are empty what appears on the screen. At the moment, I have The President of The Yonited States.

And I would really rather I didn't.

I realise this is, as they say, a first world problem, and I can very quickly click on something else, but I wish it were different. If the answer is "no you can't" then I will have to put up with it.

I have just had one of my famous brain waves! Why don't I leave one un-deleted item in each folder?

Because I have used Yahoo mail since the dawn of time, it's my default email address - despite having Gmail too. I pay £2 a month for the 'pro' mail service. The benefit is that I have no ad messages and spam management seems better (but have no way of truly knowing).

When my spam, draft, waste bin or whatever are empty, they're just empty. I have no video message or anything else.

[Mr-B]

Have you tried an ad blocker?

[The Mad Monk]

Mr-B said:

Have you tried an ad blocker?

Yes, and yahoo keep nagging me about it!

[CoolHands]

Yahoo is st

Anyway I haven’t tried it for personal, but did have MS Outlook for work and liked it, so what about Microsoft Outlook live if your missus doesn’t like google?

https://outlook.live.com/owa/

[skeeterm5]

Rather than using the website use it as an iMap account and view it through outlook or the native email client on your phone/tablet.

No more of those videos.

S

[Hoofy]

I just go back to the Inbox.

[IanJ9375]

The Mad Monk said:

Yes, and yahoo keep nagging me about it!

Firefox - and ghostery plugin, or simply just use Outlook for your mail

[LHRFlightman]

My Gmail account pulls email from my old yahoo account. Been that way for nearly a decade, maybe try that?

[The Mad Monk]

As I said earlier, I realise that it's a first world problem.

I have a number of options.

I could leave one item in each folder, so that would be there instead of the video.
I could simply hover the pointer over the title of the folder, that will tell me if the folder is empty, or not.

In the grand scheme of things, I am sure there is greater suffering than mine, somewhere in the world.

[Mr-B]

The Mad Monk said:

Mr-B said:

Have you tried an ad blocker?

Yes, and yahoo keep nagging me about it!

I use Chrome and ublock and have never been nagged.