They're just slowly putting us in a nice little box.

meh, whatever, fuck yahoo..

The end result is just an arms race ending with sophisticated users not seeing ads and the 90% having a shittier browsing experience.  Pretty much how the rest of real life already is anyway...  The place where this really sucks though is at work, where users don't actually have all that much control over the terminals they're using...

Yahoo can stick their fechen email where the sun don't shine.  Ditched 'em years ago cos of all the ads and spam they generated.  Nope, there's no way I'd ever go back to that.  If something isn't ad/spam free, or can't be made to be, then I simply don't/won't use it. 

I was recently referred to a site which demanded that I disabled Adblock in order to complete a purchase, and I figured "fech that, it's not happening", and went elsewhere instead.  I refuse to do business under those terms.

My email - which is yahoo.co.nz - downloads to my Outlook no problem. For a good year or two I find myself stuck in the Eternal Log-In Loop From Hell whenever I try to log-in to Yahoo! so tend not to use Yahoo!'s website for email anymore.

I've certainly seen a rise in the number of "we detect you have Adblocker. Please turn it off and take our advertisements, which allow this site to operate" websites over the last year. Some websites I frequent have mooted a subscription to deal with this issue but haven't actually made the jump yet.

I've been running Yahoo email forever (OK, a long damn time). GMail wasn't an option at the time. Just ISP-based email, AOL, and Yahoo. I'm definitely not a fan and don't recommend it to anyone.

But I will say that, thankfully, I run an ad-blocker and have had no issues so far. This is wrong-headed enough I think they'll give it up. But I firmly believe that ads on webpages is going to go through some kind of evolution soon.

So far...

Sure they will. They don't want the money from advertising, right?

"..I firmly believe that ads on webpages is going to go through some kind of evolution soon."

I don't care what kind of 'evolution' ads may go through, if I can't use Adblocker to filter them out, then I'll simply exit the site and go elsewhere.  There's nothing worse than flashing banner ads right beside/near something of interest... not only are they an unnecessary visual distraction, they also play havoc with my vertigo.