My Browser Builds (Part 6)

[AstroSkipper]

9 hours ago, j7n said:

It seems that Yahoo Mail have just switched to new, slow interface, which doesn't work anymore with New Moon, and tells me to update the browser. The simple/basic/classic mail, which was one of the two choices, is no longer accessible, and the modern one looks entirely new.

It has so many ads, holy crap. It uses the unblockable AdShield service I mentioned before from randomized domains.

The best would be to look for a new email provider! 

[j7n]

Mail kinda locks you in hard, because other website assume that mail is permanent and the ultimate identity. To log in somewhere, I may need to go to the e-mail and read a code, which is a problem if I no longer have that mail account. Yahoo worked as a good basic mail for a really long time in older browsers. They had a few changes over the years, but not this strong. For a while there were two mail options: basic and more complicated (still looked very plain white and flat). Now there are two refreshing banner ads, and it loads many resources from AdShield all the time to display those banners, more than two pictures.

[nicolaasjan]

Have you updated your uBlock Origin filters?

A week ago some new filters have been added to uBlock filters – Ads:

/shadow/*adshield$domain=mail.yahoo.com
/ybar/mail.yahoo.com/_t/aHR0c*$xhr,3p,domain=mail.yahoo.com

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I created a new Yahoo account (via a throwaway Gmail account and not via a phone number).

Without any extensions whatsoever, I'm not seeing any ads.  None.  Can you screencap the ads on your end?  Why would you have ads but none for me with ZERO extensions installed?