October 2007 Yahoo revised MyYahoo and put the advertising in a far more intrusive location. You can’t get rid of it - even if you pay for email and web site name. Seems that if you pay for Yahoo email (which gets rid of advertising), whay can’t I get rid of it on MyYahoo too?
Answering that users should accept intrusive advertising because the service is free ignores my main point. I PAY for Yahoo services (both email and a web address). This makes me a paying customer for Yahoo services NOT a free rider. When I first started paying for Yahoo email, I did so, in part, because this was one way to reduce or eliminate the advertising. I assume the loss in potential advertising revenue from having users with no advertising on email pages was one factor Yahoo put into their decision on the price it charges for paid email. If I pay for Yahoo mail and web address, which reduces or eliminates advertising, why doesn’t this include MyYahoo as well? Perhaps Yahoo marketing officials should be figuring out how to bundle advertising-free MyYahoo into the fee structure for its other fee-based user services.
November 8, 2008






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Because My Yahoo and all yahoo sites are free to us. Ads pay for the freebees