Yahoo restricting Mail accounts if it detects ad-blockers

[ChromeFoundry]

Yahoo is reportedly preventing some of its users with ad blockers installed on their computers from accessing their email accounts. Digiday has spotted a thread on the Adblock Plus forums with complaints from a couple of people who couldn't access Yahoo Mail on both Chrome and Firefox. One of them posted a screenshot of the message he got asking him to "disable Ad Blocker to continue using" the service, which you can see below the fold. If you take a close look at the URL, you'll see that it says "reason=ADBLK_TRAP."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/yahoo-ad-blocker-issue/

Yet another reason Yahoo is irrelevant. Marissa Mayer, worst CEO ever.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. This will not be an isolated case.

Already I have seen sites with a pop up saying " we see you are using an ad blocker"

Pretty blatant of Yahoo to announce that its viewers are just pockets to be picked.


Having said that, I just went to Yahoo, it did not object to Ghostery or Ad Guard.

[hobbit709]

2. Not blocking mine.