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    Yusuf
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    I have yahoo account, for which I check my mail every now and then. Today, when I went to check my mail, the login page[^]had nice wallpaper advertising Chevy Malibu. The image was crisp, the page loaded fast and nice idea for ad. On this one, Yahoo has done better job than Google.

    Yusuf May I help you?

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      I have yahoo account, for which I check my mail every now and then. Today, when I went to check my mail, the login page[^]had nice wallpaper advertising Chevy Malibu. The image was crisp, the page loaded fast and nice idea for ad. On this one, Yahoo has done better job than Google.

      Yusuf May I help you?

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      Christian Graus
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      I disagree. A nicer job for advertisers perhaps, but end users ? I don't even notice Google mail ads to report on them.

      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        I have yahoo account, for which I check my mail every now and then. Today, when I went to check my mail, the login page[^]had nice wallpaper advertising Chevy Malibu. The image was crisp, the page loaded fast and nice idea for ad. On this one, Yahoo has done better job than Google.

        Yusuf May I help you?

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        Lost User
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        AdBlock

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          I disagree. A nicer job for advertisers perhaps, but end users ? I don't even notice Google mail ads to report on them.

          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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          Yusuf
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          Well, it is a free service, as such, I don't mind if an ad is thrown in my face as long as it is not in my way and it does not force me to do something out of my way, I take it. It is a small price for free service. I use mainly gmail and their keyword ad is put nicely on the side, but I have seen many times irrelevant attention grabbing ad on that page. If I spend One second to look at the ad then dismiss it, well, I feel it is fair price to pay for free service.

          Yusuf May I help you?

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            AdBlock

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            Yusuf
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            I have adblock too, but it is pushed as background image with a link to yahoo ad services. It seems my AdBlock missed it.

            Yusuf May I help you?

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              I have adblock too, but it is pushed as background image with a link to yahoo ad services. It seems my AdBlock missed it.

              Yusuf May I help you?

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              Abhinav S
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              Yusuf wrote:

              It seems my AdBlock missed it.

              That IS clever advertising. :)

              My signature "sucks" today

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                I have yahoo account, for which I check my mail every now and then. Today, when I went to check my mail, the login page[^]had nice wallpaper advertising Chevy Malibu. The image was crisp, the page loaded fast and nice idea for ad. On this one, Yahoo has done better job than Google.

                Yusuf May I help you?

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                John M Drescher
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                That is fine on the login page however once you login and get popups for a 1/2 dozen fictitious women want to add you to their chat to self promote the chat feature that is not cool.

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                  I have yahoo account, for which I check my mail every now and then. Today, when I went to check my mail, the login page[^]had nice wallpaper advertising Chevy Malibu. The image was crisp, the page loaded fast and nice idea for ad. On this one, Yahoo has done better job than Google.

                  Yusuf May I help you?

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  Yahoo sucks Yahoo email sucks even more wallpaper ads? Major suckage Marc

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                    Yahoo sucks Yahoo email sucks even more wallpaper ads? Major suckage Marc

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                    Bassam Abdul Baki
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                    You still trying to say what JSOP would say? :)

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                      Yahoo sucks Yahoo email sucks even more wallpaper ads? Major suckage Marc

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                      +5 That's why I left it since gmail birth.

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                        You still trying to say what JSOP would say? :)

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                        Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                        You still trying to say what JSOP would say?

                        Yeah, but the worse thing is, knowing I suck at it. ;) Marc

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                          Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                          You still trying to say what JSOP would say?

                          Yeah, but the worse thing is, knowing I suck at it. ;) Marc

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                          I think I would have expounded a bit more on the type of suckage and its possible origin, as well as a possible (and probably violent) solution to the suckage, but you'll eventually get the hang of it. :)

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                            Yusuf wrote:

                            It seems my AdBlock missed it.

                            That IS clever advertising. :)

                            My signature "sucks" today

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                            Abhinav S wrote:

                            That IS clever intrusive advertising.

                            FTFY

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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