Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:49:48 -0400 From: "Gennadiy Tsygan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Yahoo mail
I think that Proxomitron is the best of the ad blockers. It is very flexible and allows for a lot of tweaking. Flash can be blocked altogether. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: [LIB] Yahoo mail > > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:07:07 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Yahoo mail > > > >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Reply to Lou's email address below, please: > > David, > > Yahoo mail is driving me up a tree! I had just installed Webwasher when > they suddenly started displaying a lot of ads with Flash. I can't seem to > block Flash. There are times when I move to the next message, and (at least > with WW running) the page stops loading with nothing displayed except a > Flash ad with a car at the top of the page. I have click 'back' and then > click on the link for the next message, and hope the Flash add doesn't load > the 2nd time. > > Yahoo has gotten horrible since their makeover. It looses track of mail > when I click 'back', reporting some error, and I have to go back to the > inbox to get to the next message. In order to get to the Inbox, I have to > click a Windows style drop-down menu on the error page, and then wait while > the code loads to format the dropdown. Ugh... > > I'm not sure if Webwasher is worth it at this point. After about a week > with it, I notice that it seems to take LONGER to load pages. I don't think > WW is blocking data from being loaded. It seems it loads EVERYTHING from a > page, and then sits their churning it's little engines (I can see CPY usage > for it zoom up for a few seconds in TaskInfo) before anything gets written > to the screen. I think I'd rather SEE the darned ads. > > What's your take on what's going on at Yahoo, and using WW over there? > > Matt > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > > > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
