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bucolic_frolic

(46,730 posts) Mon Sep 12, 2022, 01:55 PM Sep 2022

Yahoo mail doesn't work most of the time now

Last edited Mon Sep 12, 2022, 03:33 PM - Edit history (2)

the headers and links are non-functional. Can't do anything except click one email at a time, from the main page, and read it, and return to the main page. Can't delete, go to the next one, move them. Cleared all cookies, reset, turned off tracking blockers. Yahoo is just so fouled up.

Update: turned out to be a cross-linked problem with another email provider that also runs off Yahoo as their provider. Keeping both these tabs open confuses Yahoo mail. I only teased this out by trying to open Yahoo mail in Chromium and realizing it was pulling up the other email address for login. Computers are safe though, and information dedicated and private, even when cross-linked.

Yahoo always was the screw up of screw ups.

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Yahoo mail doesn't work most of the time now (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Sep 2022 OP

Yahoo: the AOL of the future! ret5hd Sep 2022 #1

You get grandfathered in and it's a lot of work to change bucolic_frolic Sep 2022 #6

Mine is working fine. nt Phoenix61 Sep 2022 #2

Mine are full of ads above the headers (or whatever you call them) halfulglas Sep 2022 #3

Mine is working fine but they are really selling an upgrade. underpants Sep 2022 #4

A month ago my Y! mail account started signing me out every time. Grokenstein Sep 2022 #5

change now while you can Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #7

I quit them yrs ago, when my acct got hacked childfreebychoice Sep 2022 #8

works fine here nt msongs Sep 2022 #9

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ret5hd

(21,320 posts)

1. Yahoo: the AOL of the future!

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 01:57 PM

Sep 2022

bucolic_frolic

(46,730 posts)

6. You get grandfathered in and it's a lot of work to change

Reply to ret5hd (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 02:13 PM

Sep 2022

Not to mention the archives of 23 years

Phoenix61

(17,546 posts)

2. Mine is working fine. nt

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 02:00 PM

Sep 2022

halfulglas

(1,654 posts)

3. Mine are full of ads above the headers (or whatever you call them)

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 02:03 PM

Sep 2022

But they are otherwise working fine (or as well as Yahoo has been). They always keep asking me to switch to ad-free, etc. but I'm not about to pay for what I get on Yahoo.

underpants

(186,377 posts)

4. Mine is working fine but they are really selling an upgrade.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 02:07 PM

Sep 2022

Constantly

Grokenstein

(5,820 posts)

5. A month ago my Y! mail account started signing me out every time.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 02:09 PM

Sep 2022

They really really REALLY want my mobile number "so (I) don't get locked out." But I don't have a mobile number (yeah, I'm old and don't need a celly, sue me) so each time I have to sign in, reload the page to eliminate the "don't get locked out" beggery, and enter my mail account via their trashy Currently-dot-com page. I've tried cookie deletion and other browsers, same results. It's deliberate.

What they want: More of my info to sell.
What they're gonna get: One more deleted account.