All week long I have been annoyed with the banner ads in my Yahoo Mail. I love Yahoo Mail and have used it since 1997. Same email addy since then, haha, so I'm kinda dedicated. Still using the old fashioned layout too, so I don't know if those of you who use the new layout get the banner ads in the same place or not. But the banner ad that is driving me nuts is located directly at the top of the page, and it's one of those long ads.

First part of the week, it was this yellow Pedigree dog food banner. Which was fine. The thing was, every time I'd finish with the email I was working on, and I'd click next, the page would refresh, and another banner ad would be there. So now I had 2 Pedigree ads stacked, one on top of the other. Every time I'd finish with an email and the page refreshed, another one would stack up. Pretty soon, I have 4, 5, 6, 7 of the same ads stacked there, and I'd have to scroll way down to see my inbox, LOL. It was kind of annoying!! This went on for days.

Today, a new ad, by Wal-Mart. When your mouse accidentally touches this ad, it opens up, extending downward, and does not retract into itself when you move your mouse off of it. No, it stays there. And you are left searching for the "Close X" in the top right corner, but NO, it is not there, now they have moved the "X" and it is in the top left corner, arrrghhh, and darnit, these ads are driving me nuts lately, LOL!

I know, I know, it's such a mundane thing to gripe about, right? Yes, you are right..... but I was just wondering if anyone else was having these banner ad fits like me. Usually, ads never bother me. But it started to get humorous and very frustrating, the way that yellow pedigree kept stacking over and over upon itself. They seemed to have fixed it as of yesterday, but today, I don't see the ad. Now I'm dealing with wallyworld, hahahaha.

Have a good day everybody!

Get Gmail. Set it up for POP3 to download to your mail client. You won't have any of that nonsense.

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I do have a Gmail account, which I do use, but I've been signed up with all of these survey companies since almost 13 years now and I don't wanna try to change my email addy. But that IS a good idea!

Yep I know exactly what you mean. Mine is an SBC account that I use thru Yahoo. I pay like $40 a month for internet thru them so I didn't appreciate the ads either. They aren't always just at the top, like you said they will just pop open.

I downloaded mozilla thunderbird and use it now. Like you I didn't want to change my email address because I have had this one for over 10 years. Anyway Mozilla works pretty good, so far I am happy. You just transfer over your email account info to there.
Thunderbird - Reclaim your inbox

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With Thunderbird, you could create two files for your mail to enter - one from your Gmail account, and one from your Yahoo account. When you pull up Thunderbird (it's software you install on your computer, much like Outlook Express mail that comes standard with Windows), you'll have one file of emails for each account, which would keep your survey stuff separate from your personal mail.

You can specify whether you want it to delete the emails from yahoo and gmail once they are downloaded into Thunderbird, or if you want copies to remain in Yahoo and Gmail. I always keep copies in both places so I have access to all my mail when I am using another computer somewhere.

Your own address stays the same, and when you reply, it shows your gmail or yahoo email address, whichever you specify for a specific email.

I use adblock plus on firefox and dont ever see the ads. Its a really great tool and blocks a lot of garbage