Rogers webmail — with advertising
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Online advertising has become so pervasive that advertisers know the only way they’re going to get you to pay attention is to virtually hit you over the head with a sledgehammer — enter sledgehammer advertising, p2pnet said recently.
Now, “A year following Rogers ambushing websites by inserting advertisements into company’s webpages alerting subscriber’s when they reached 75% of their allotted bandwidth usage, Rogers has ambushed their premium subscribers by inserting advertisements within the interface pages of premium subscriber’s to Rogers Yahoo! Mail,” says p2pnet reader Kevin Crannie in an email, going on »»»
And we’re talking about advertisements you would see as a free subscriber to Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and other popular web-based email. Members of DSL Reports.com are outraged over Rogers and Yahoo! to take such action to force advertisements upon their premium subscriber’s http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21426474-Webmail-now-has-adverts
One member who wrote Rogers seeking answers as to why Rogers and Yahoo! have take this action was only worthy of receiving the response, “Advertising content is commonly included in other popular mail services such as Hotmail and Gmail.
Rogers and Yahoo! have jointly introduced advertising content to the Rogers Yahoo! Mail Service.” Rogers fails to realize that Hotmail and Gmail are free and are ad supported.
Premium subscriber’s to Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular web-base email who pay a yearly fee see no advertisements.
Clearly it’s none other than a money-making market for Rogers and Yahoo! to force advertisements upon their premium subscriber’s.
This abuse that Rogers is forcing upon their customer’s is leaving premium subscriber’s asking the question, Where does it end? Premium subscriber’s to Rogers HiSpeed who pay up to $54.95 /Mth and choose to use Rogers Web mail now have to content with “inline adverts all over the bloody page”, reports one DSLReports.com member.
If this is the progress, equalization, security and communications that Rogers provides, their purpose and viability is being questioned.
Nor is he alone. Says drunkgoat on dslreports »»»
first it was dropping everyone’s speed by 2mbps (”to allow for network imporvements”)
then it was dropping the free hosted web space
then it was dropping usenet (”because of child porn”)
then it was throttling
then it was the download cap
now it’s putting ads into our email
the slide down the slippery slope continues…
just add this new transgression to the list, which also includes web page injections, and 404 hijacks.
What’s wrong with Crannie and Drunkgoat? Don’t they understand they count for zip in the scheme of things?
They’re brainless cash-cows who, it has been ordained, will consume, consume, consume, no matter what excreta Rogers, et al, care to dish up.
That’s all there is to it.
Ask Ted Rogers.
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become so pervasive – Online advertising and the New Consumer, September 2, 2008
p2pnet – Adscure: sledgehammer advertising, September 19, 2008
dslreports – Webmail now has adverts?, November 14, 2008
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November 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Try some of these solutions.
Ad Blocker methods:
1-
Edit the hosts file
The hosts file in Windows XP is located:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Open the “hosts” file in Notebook, and add:
127.0.0.1 ad.yieldmanager.com
127.0.0.1 yieldmanager.com
This will remove the ads on the right side, but it doesn’t stop the page from being made smaller from the right hand side…. but at least you aren’t bombarded by ads!!
To add a complete update of hosts go to http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and copy and paste the list of hosts from the “hosts.txt”.
For Vista users and more Info at:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
2-
For Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.0, Flock 0.5, Songbird 0.4., install the addon Adblock Plus
http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
November 17th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I am ready to change my home phone, internet, wireless and cable to a NON-ROGERS competitor over this UNACCEPTABLE imposition. To add insult to injury they now charge for the bandwidth to push their ads.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I paid for unlimited bandwidth years later I now get 60gb for the same price. Thank you Rogers.
seems like everyday the pricing and schemes get more destructive. As soon as another company offers High speed in my area im switching.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Anon said:
“As soon as another company offers High speed in my area im switching.”
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Read BOTH pages found here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21425371-ISPs-that-dont-throttle-and-have-their-own-equipment-LIST
November 18th, 2008 at 3:15 am
The constant barrage of advertising is interferring with the usefulness of the tool they lured us in with. It penalizes those of us that use it.
When regular mail is delivered to my house, I have the option of looking at the JUNK MAIL only once or not at all and then putting it in the recycling box where it should be. The constant bombardment with unwanted advertising is like an ignorant postal worker standing at my desk and thrusting a useless flyer (Tickle me Elmo X Box, the Royal Bank, ING, Scotia Bank ….. Etc., Etc., Etc.,) in my face everytime I open a letter or even go back to look at one I had seen before.
Even if the ads could be deleted or minimized after they are ignored, it would be less unaccepable.
I encourage the many others that feel the same way to complain vigorously to Rogers and see if they will relent on this idiotic policy.
I am experimenting witn Gmail to see if that is a viable alternative to .
November 18th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Gmail has inline Text ads, and that constitutes as the same as advertisements. Burntmail.com is a great webmail that does not support any form of advertising, as is GMX.com. Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! and most other popular web based email are all ad supported. You’re just jumping from one frying pan into another. Go for those web based email providers that are not ad supported. I have never used my ISP’s webmail, but for the fact that if I change ISP, my email address remains unchanged.
I’m glad I left Rogers months ago. When death comes to Ted Rogers, you can guarantee that Rogers (the corporation) will go to hell in a hand basket. You think it’s bad now, the best yet to come. Now is the time to treat Rogers exactly the way Bell was treated when Bell began throttling wholesale customer’s last March. Leave Rogers for and give your business to the smaller ISP such as TekSavvy, Start Communications, who truly care about their customer’s. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
ITs funny I was looking at this and you people fail to realize you don’t pay for email. You pay for internet service. MY friend showed this to me and your making a big deal of something that is not even that big and doesn’t take up the screen. I am not even a Rogers employee but when my wife came to me about this I just stood there and laughed at her. Told her to deal with it because I am not wasting my breathe
November 19th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Uknown..I do pay for this service. I pay for internet service that includes an email address. Most, if not all, other ISP’s offer a webmail option. If Rogers supplied us with an alternative webmail service that didn’t include advertising, than that’s fine. But as far as I know, this is the only way to check webmail if you are a Rogers client. As such, them advertising on it for those of us who pay for that service should be illegal or a violation of the terms of service.
Of course, this being Canada, I am sure Rogers will just changer their terms of service while the CRTC mindlessly looks on.
And yes, it is a big deal. It is very annoying as it will pop up the sidebar anytime you refresh the page or check a different message. If I just had a simple Yahoo account that I don’t pay for, then of course I would say advertising is ok. But I pay for Rogers service and inclusive to that is a webmail option.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
@anon none of those ISP’s service my area. But thanks for trying