{"id":1000266,"date":"2006-11-10T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/privacy\/2006\/11\/10\/ad-blocking-yahoo-groups\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:30:21","slug":"ad-blocking-yahoo-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/privacy\/2006\/11\/10\/ad-blocking-yahoo-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad-blocking Yahoo Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently Yahoo Groups mailing lists seemed to all start sending out obnoxious image ads in various messages:<\/p>\n

\"Yahoo<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this makes me a lot less likely to subscribe to yahoogroups mailing lists. Most new lists are going to Google anyway. However there are several legacy groups I subscribe to that probably aren’t going to switch immediately.
\n<\/p>\n

My first idea was to see if AdBlocker Plus<\/a> could do the trick. It does work in Thunderbird as well as Firefox, but it doesn’t seem to be able to handle the text ads inside the Yahoo messages.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed this at the bottom of each message:<\/p>\n

Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest<\/a> | Switch format to Traditional<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plain text! That’s just what the doctor ordered! The second option sends an e-mail to listname-traditional@yahoogroups.com that changes you into plain text e-mail without the annoying sidebar ads. After you send this Yahoo will send you back a confirmation message:<\/p>\n

Hello,<\/p>\n

We received a request from you to switch your email format from “Fully Featured” to “Traditional” for your group rest-discuss. Please confirm your request by replying to this message. <\/p>\n

If you do not wish to switch the email format for group rest-discuss, please ignore this message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just reply to that message and you should be set up without the ads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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