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March 25, 2004
BT Ya-Hell
Bloody hell. I've just had a game to wrest control of my computer back from -of all people -'BT Yahoo'. Just had to undergo a tedious rigmarole to their 'upgraded service' during which process BT-yahoo without telling you what's really happening, download an 'improved' Yahoo browser. Full of extra tool bars (top and side) packed full of extra nonsense buttons. (Yahoo personals? Give me a break! Stocks and shares? No. Ain't got none. So I why do I need a button for that?) Er.... and at any rate I've already got a yahoo e-mail account thingy and so I'm already very wary of the whole Yahoo thing. Especially since they've been doing too many things that have really annoyed me over the past couple of years or so. But now BT hand in hand with Yahoo are trying to outdo AOL in sheer awfulness in foisting their own particular version of the web browsing experience onto the hapless end user, and in doing so used settings and shitty programs which managed to trash my computer. Uninstalling everything didn't help either - only by going back to an earlier system restore point eventually got things back to normal for me. That's how badly it messed things up.
Dear ISP people -please note that when I go onto to the internet it's to get my mail and look at web pages. Sites to which I choose to visit. I certainly don't want a portal page chockfull of totally useless information being pushed at me every time I launch a browser. Also I only very occasionally want to chat to anyone or be interrupted by other people wanting to chat to me*. Not unless I’ve specifically go online to do just that, in which case I'll load up whatever chat program I need for myself. So surprisingly I don't need Yahoo messenger loading up at boot up -even before I've even decided I'm going to go on the internet on that particular computing session. It's for this reason I long ago disabled MSN messenger from ever running at start up -so why should I now want Yahoo messenger to do so?
Oh, and when I click on a hyperlink in a e-mail I certainly do NOT want to have to type in yet another bloody password before the browser will let me look at the page!!! Christ on a bike. I want to go straight to the page - dammit. I don't need a 'personalised' web experience as coyingly they call it - I certainly don't need parental controls. I live alone. So I already have a personalised web experience, one I‘ve come to all by myself, developed over the years. One I'm already happy with -thank you very much. So keep your bloody mitts off my settings. Oh and do stop flooding everything up with so many bloody adverts.
BT Yahoo.
Avoid.
*I used to be on AOL a long time ago and AIM used to drive me insane. It’s frightening how many people are out there in AOL cyber-space-land who just want to ‘cyber’ with any and everyone who puts the 'gay' word in their profile.
Posted by groc on March 25, 2004 12:47 AM
Comments
AUTHOR: mike
EMAIL: mikejla@btinternet.com
IP: 217.205.37.3
URL: http://troubleddiva.com
DATE: 03/30/2004 12:57:41 PM
That's interesting - most of my junk is now filtered at source, and doesn't even make it down into my junk folder. Although I suspect that the webmail filtering isn't up to the same level - maybe it's a full e-mail client thing only.
wibbled by: Anonymous at December 13, 2004 11:34 PM
AUTHOR: mike
EMAIL: mikejla@btinternet.com
IP: 217.205.37.3
URL: http://troubleddiva.com
DATE: 03/30/2004 10:20:07 AM
Wow, you were unlucky. I've just been through the same "upgrade" process on the laptop I use to check my BT webmail at the weekend, and I was given the option of refusing the browser software. I also have to say that the upgraded webmail system is a definite improvement. As for my regular e-mail, the upgraded BT/Yahoo service now has an automnatic spam filter which has reduced my spam intake from c.30-50 a day to between 0 and 3.
God, I sound like a hired spam comment wonk in the pay of BT/Yahoo!
wibbled by: Anonymous at December 13, 2004 11:34 PM
AUTHOR: groc
EMAIL: groc@(spamNot)groc.org.uk
IP: 81.132.176.61
URL: http://www.groc.org.uk/blog
DATE: 03/30/2004 11:07:51 AM
BT kept nagging me my yahoo mailbox was over full -which is how i ended up doing the upgrade. it certainly was full the junk folder and only the junk folder was full to bursting. I thought they were supposed to automatically delete that stuff after a set amount of time? Not nag you about it.
And BT's filters still haven't learnt how to stop that french-based porn site I've been plagued by -although it's back down to 10 or 15 spams a day now.
wibbled by: Anonymous at December 13, 2004 11:34 PM
AUTHOR: Tim
EMAIL: tim@nonstoptotokyo.co.uk
IP: 213.122.15.254
URL: http://www.nonstoptotokyo.co.uk
DATE: 04/02/2004 01:10:55 AM
Luckily the BT Yahoo crap isn't Mac compatable (I don't even have to use their dial-up software - yay!), so it took me about 5 seconds to upgrade. If I was going to go BT broadband I think I'd go for the 'bare-bones' option, as you're basically paying extra for the luxury of that Yahoo portal.
wibbled by: Anonymous at December 13, 2004 11:34 PM