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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnybody know how to get rid of those Yahoo instant messages?
Everytime I check my email I have to wade through those damned things. I keep blocking them and I've explored every option I can come up with to make them stop to no avail.
All those people (spammers) I don't know from Adam be gettin' on my las' nerve, ya'll.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Get another email account elsewhere. Gmail has proven to be pretty reliable for me, but I'm sure there are many others out there.
Zanzoobar
(894 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)"To the invisible Boat-Mobile! Now where the heck did we park it?" - Barnacle Boy
msongs
(67,441 posts)a big money maker for yahoo and yahoo doesn't care if your kids get them. anything for $$ really for yahoo
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)to click that gets rid of them all.
Or, you can just stop using Yahoo! Google is bad enough, but Yahoo! is downright republican. Besides, their software is just terrible.
chaska
(6,794 posts)But it's just kind of home at this point. I've been there so long, my whole life is tangled up in there.
chaska
(6,794 posts)I'm kind of pissed at google after the whole privacy flap (even though I do have a gmail account ... that I never use). I switched to duckduckgo because they don't monitor your movements the way google does. I've been pretty well pleased with them.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)user info. Startpage.com is another good one, but neither has the goodies you get from the data sellers.
chaska
(6,794 posts)Am I missing out on something by using duckduck?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Oh, and I didn't mention that startpage.com uses the Google engine, it just anonymizes you and blocks the customization/tracking stuff.
daaron
(763 posts)Secure, proxies, no IP tracking.
For mail, I've taken to using mail.com. I call my other emails (yahoo, hotmail, etc.) 'spam magnets', and use them for anything and everything other than human beings I've met face-to-face.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)I think Duck Duck is secure as well.
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)chaska
(6,794 posts)flamingdem
(39,321 posts)chaska
(6,794 posts)If I don't return, remember me to your children. Tell them that, against all odds, I did indeed fight the good fight.
Farewell.
chaska
(6,794 posts)Raise a glass of ale to the stout and hardy Chaska ... and forget me to your children.
Yeah, I found it. There were many perils in the labyrinth but I, the mighty Chaska, did overcome them all.
Thanks to you all, me hale and hearty DUers!
Here's the link to how to do it, for any who might need it: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=SLN3606
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)you didn't realize it... I had to get totally annoyed before I googled on it.. and I felt the same way, that wuz e-z!