And, of course, this pisses people off, unreasonably. Basically, (for the 12 of you who don’t know) it lets people surf without seeing advertisements.
The Washington Post is profiling the semi-anonymous Rick752, a mid-50s guy in upstate NY who puts together and maintains EasyList, an extremely popular list that powers the popular AdBlock Firefox extension. Goodbye! Hello Apple Mail, as much as I hate it.Thu, Jun 26th 2008 08:24am - Mike Masnick So has blocked my inbox for using an ad blocker. For now, if you're experiencing the same issue, you can try using other browsers or signing in on other devices.
We've reached out to Yahoo for clarification, and we'll update this post once we hear back. Digiday notes that it's becoming increasingly common for websites to lock out users if they don't disable their ad blockers, with The Washington Post being among the publications that enforced the rule in the past. This is a test we're running for a small number of Yahoo Mail users in the US."Įven Andrei Herasimchuk - Yahoo's former Senior Director of Product Design, who once helped revamp Mail itself, and Twitter's former Director of Design - lamented on the microblogging website that he couldn't access his account. Update: A spokesperson told us: "At Yahoo, we are continually developing and testing new product experiences. If you take a close look at the URL, you'll see that it says "reason=ADBLK_TRAP." 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. 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. Yahoo is reportedly preventing some of its users with ad blockers installed on their computers from accessing their email accounts.
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