| Title | Yahoo is Locking People Out of Their Email if They Use Ad Blockers | |
| Date | Tuesday November 24 2015, @10:43AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the time-to-run-your-own-mail-server dept. | ||
Yahoo is angering the dwindling number of people who still use its email service with a test run of a feature that locks out anyone who has an ad blocker installed.
Several Yahoo users complained that they encountered an error message when trying to open their mail account on Thursday in an AdBlock Plus forum thread first spotted by Digiday . The screen ordered them to first disable ad blockers in order to access their emails.
Yahoo said it was testing a "new product experience" in the US.
Members of one ad-blocking forum said they had already managed to circumvent the restriction.
Yahoo joins a growing number of media sites to experiment with barring ad block users altogether as the technology available to do so becomes more widespread. The Washington Post tested out a feature that directed ad block users to a subscription page in September, and the London-based newspaper City AM started a similar trial this week.
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson also said in a recent earnings call that the paper is looking into "technical solutions" to combat blockers.
"At Yahoo, we are continually developing and testing new product experiences," Yahoo said. "This is a test we're running for a small number of Yahoo Mail users in the U.S."
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