Yahoo Reported To Restrict Some Accounts Using Ad Blockers

Yahoo Restricting Mail Accounts If It Detects Ad-Blockers (Updated)

Mariella Moon | November 20, 2015

Yahoo is reportedly preventing some of its users with ad blockers installed on their computers from accessing their email accounts. Digiday has spotted a thread on the Adblock Plus forums with complaints from a couple of people who couldn't access Yahoo Mail on both Chrome and Firefox. One of them posted a screenshot of the message he got asking him to "disable Ad Blocker to continue using" the service, which you can see below the fold. If you take a close look at the URL, you'll see that it says "reason=ADBLK_TRAP."

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3006981/data-center-cloud/yahoo-mail-begins-blocking-users-with-ad-block-enabled.html

<more at http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/yahoo-ad-blocker-issue/; related links: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3006981/data-center-cloud/yahoo-mail-begins-blocking-users-with-ad-block-enabled.html (Yahoo Mail begins blocking users with ad block enabled. AdBlock Plus users in Chrome and Firefox report seeing error messages instead of their inboxes. November 20, 2015) and http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/20/adblock-plus-android-browser/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/20/adblock-plus-android-browser/ (Adblock Plus gets its own Android browser. May 20, 2015)>