Anyone on Yahoo?

[Rodo]

I have been trying to find some way of getting rid of those terribly annoying videos that they have foist on us on our email page. There is nothing to click on to remove them and you can't email Yahoo at all, just sent to the questions page which is useless. I am finding these videos worse than spam/abuse and I posted on their spam/abuse question page about it but of course no reply.

Any ideas?

[TheOstrich]

Rodo, I used to be with BTYahoo which then became BT internet.

Master O downloaded an ad-blocker (AdBlock) for me and they do seem to work. It seems to block advertising videos as well. You can set it to allow ads on some sites and not others, but I have it unrestricted and I don't tend to get any ads at all these days (except on Microsoft's own embedded ones on W10 sites).

They are "controversial" in the sense that people like the Guardian don't like you using them, as they are getting no advertising revenue money from their website, (but that's the Guardian's problem, in my book), and some websites like the Birmingham Evening Mail do not let you view any articles on their pages at all (but they are a left-wing rag and tend to leave me foaming with rage anyway, so that's no great loss )

I'm sure Suff or WM will be along to give better advice than me, though ....

[Rodo]

I have Adblock plus downloaded Ossie, but still get them.

[Suff]

Ah, sadly I'm on Yahoo Small Business. Which means I pay for it and therefore I don't get the ads.

Sorry, can't help with it. I doubt the ad blockers will work because Yahoo will have expended a LOT of time to ensure that if you block their video's without blocking half the internet.

Fair's Fair I guess, they provide a free service and advertising pays for it. If you block the advertising they you are blocking their payment and, eventually, the service goes away as it does not pay for itself. The storage and servers for a public mail service like Yahoo costs hundreds of millions, if not billions, to build out and then tens to hundreds of millions to maintain. Someone has to pay for it.

I was reading, today, that the DM and other papers are losing ad revenue for their printed media. Resulting in people losing their jobs to compensate. As they say, you get what you pay for and in free online services the payment is in the adverts you have to endure.

[Rodo]

Yes, fair point.

[Workingman]

Rodo, I believe you said that you use Chrome.

Go to settings and at the bottom of the page click Show Advanced Settings. In the Privacy section click the Content settings button. In the pop-up scroll down to Plugins and select Let me choose when to run plugin content. Click the Done button and close the Settings tab. You might have to restart Chrome for this to take.

[Suff]

I did wonder if it's HTML5 so I did a bit of digging and found this if it is.

It might be worth giving it a punt if the workaround WM gave is not doing the job.

[Rodo]

Oh many thanks chaps. Will give it a go.

[Gal]

Did WM's advice work Rodo? I have a yahoo address and have similar issues. (I also use Chrome)

[Rodo]

No, I'm afraid WM's advice didn't make any difference at all. Nothing worked.

However, I have found a solution such as it is. You have to leave one email in each of your folders and then there is no problem. The minute you clear out your Send or whatever folders then the videos start. That certainly works. A bit crude and obvious, but at least no more videos.