Why I hate Yahoo
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I've hated them for years. I will have nothing (intentional) to do with them. I can't put my finger on it exactly why, but I do. And just a few minutes ago was a reminder... The London .NET Users group home page (from a post below) http://www.dnug.org.uk/[^] OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to. They also bought out Music Match, who made my favourite MP3player. I now use WMP with nearly everybody else. Rant over.
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. - Luc Pattyn
so you answer don't be scared of failure The only failure is never to try Things You've Never Done - Passenger -2008 -
I've hated them for years. I will have nothing (intentional) to do with them. I can't put my finger on it exactly why, but I do. And just a few minutes ago was a reminder... The London .NET Users group home page (from a post below) http://www.dnug.org.uk/[^] OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to. They also bought out Music Match, who made my favourite MP3player. I now use WMP with nearly everybody else. Rant over.
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. - Luc Pattyn
so you answer don't be scared of failure The only failure is never to try Things You've Never Done - Passenger -2008Malcolm Smart wrote:
OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to.
by that measure, I would hate most companies.
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I've hated them for years. I will have nothing (intentional) to do with them. I can't put my finger on it exactly why, but I do. And just a few minutes ago was a reminder... The London .NET Users group home page (from a post below) http://www.dnug.org.uk/[^] OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to. They also bought out Music Match, who made my favourite MP3player. I now use WMP with nearly everybody else. Rant over.
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. - Luc Pattyn
so you answer don't be scared of failure The only failure is never to try Things You've Never Done - Passenger -2008Malcolm Smart wrote:
OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to.
aka "Redirect", there's a great free tool to workaround that: see that little arrow pointing down next to your "back" button? You can use that, try it!
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Malcolm Smart wrote:
OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to.
aka "Redirect", there's a great free tool to workaround that: see that little arrow pointing down next to your "back" button? You can use that, try it!
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
It's so much less convenient than the button on my mouse though.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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It's so much less convenient than the button on my mouse though.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
dan neely wrote:
It's so much less convenient than the button on my mouse though.
If you're quick enough, you can click it twice. I'd say that "browser hijack" is a bit too strong expression for a simple redirect.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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dan neely wrote:
It's so much less convenient than the button on my mouse though.
If you're quick enough, you can click it twice. I'd say that "browser hijack" is a bit too strong expression for a simple redirect.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Simple redirects don't break the back button. Only badly written JavaScripts redirects do.
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Simple redirects don't break the back button. Only badly written JavaScripts redirects do.
Daniel Grunwald wrote:
Simple redirects don't break the back button. Only badly written JavaScripts redirects do.
Did you try the link he provided? It's a simple redirect.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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I've hated them for years. I will have nothing (intentional) to do with them. I can't put my finger on it exactly why, but I do. And just a few minutes ago was a reminder... The London .NET Users group home page (from a post below) http://www.dnug.org.uk/[^] OPens fine. Click on one of the many 'mailing list' links and you get to a yahoo groups page. No problem there - except I wanted to get back, so I hit the back button. Nothing. They hijacked (maybe too strong a term) my browser and would not let me go back to the page I wanted to go to. They also bought out Music Match, who made my favourite MP3player. I now use WMP with nearly everybody else. Rant over.
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. - Luc Pattyn
so you answer don't be scared of failure The only failure is never to try Things You've Never Done - Passenger -2008I hate Yahoo because them yahoos won't give me my user name - abumami. I hadn't used it for too long and they deactivated it. When I try to open up a new account it says name already taken. Right - someone else has that user name?! But I did some checking and found out (can't remember how) that that user name does not exist on their system, and that they've entirely blocked any possibility of that name ever existing again on their system. Doh! There is absolutely no way to contact them. I looked all over their site and there is no email, no phone number, no FAX that someone can send a support question - or COMPLAINT. *sheesh*
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Daniel Grunwald wrote:
Simple redirects don't break the back button. Only badly written JavaScripts redirects do.
Did you try the link he provided? It's a simple redirect.
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Actually it's a simple redirect targeting another simple redirect targeting a page with badly written JavaScript, here a small excerpt:
if(top == self) { document.write("") } else { top.location.href = "http://www.yahoo.com" } -
Actually it's a simple redirect targeting another simple redirect targeting a page with badly written JavaScript, here a small excerpt:
if(top == self) { document.write("") } else { top.location.href = "http://www.yahoo.com" }This is the sort of crap that breaks my button no matter how fast I am.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Simple redirects don't break the back button. Only badly written JavaScripts redirects do.