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Bicycle Bill
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I use Yahoo for my email and therefore Yahoo is one of my regular 'go-to' pages on my computer.  I can't help but notice how far their landing page has gone downhill in the past year or so, serving up shitloads of ads — sometime blatantly, sometimes disguised as information articles — but that's not what I'm talking about today.

What I am talking about it the proliferation of animatronic 'pets' — itsy-bitsy puppies, kittens, even baby owls (for the Potterheads among us, I guess?) currently being flogged as 'the ultimate companion — won't bite, scratch, piddle, poop, bark, whine, or need to be fed'.  Just revel in the overwhelming 'cuteness' factor.  Sort of like the dyed baby chicks and bunnies of the Easters from my childhood long past, huddling under a single naked light bulb in an aluminum reflector at the local five-and-dime store — and we all know how well THAT turned out for those little critters.

Secondly, if I see ONE MORE ITEM featuring the so-called "baby Yoda" on it — really ... on a crockpot????? — I am going to seriously lose my shit.

I predict you'll be able to pick up both of these items ... and countless other 'gotta-have-'em' gifts for Christmas 2020 ... at yard sales and thrift stores across the country by next Labor Day at the latest.
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You would think they would be more sophisticated about giving you ads for products you might have an interest in (Marmite anyone?). Those ads make it possible for us to have unlimited free email.
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Firefox.
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Bicycle Bill wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:40 pm
 I use Yahoo for my email
Well that's yer problem right there. (Might even be three words shorter.)
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Long Run wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:18 pm
 You would think they would be more sophisticated about giving you ads for products you might have an interest in (Marmite anyone?). Those ads make it possible for us to have unlimited free email.
I use AOL and have unlimited free email and no ads at all. I do get a nice news screen
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I use Yahoo for email only and get no ads. I never go to the Yahoo home page.
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I do as well and rarely get any ads; just bookmark the mail login page.
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I use Yahoo email and Apple Mail. No ads. I see the Yahoo main page occasionally but mostly ignore it.
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I use yahoo mail and get no ads,

Update your ad blocker s/w.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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Gmail, ad free.
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