how to get away from yahoo I hate yahoo

I totally despise yahoo email! I did want to migrate but it was mandatory and I had not choice. I get so many ads but to get rid of them yahoo wants you to spend money for a plan to be add free? Ridiculous, The emails are hard to read and find. too much spam.

Any suggestions on how to get away from yahoo email? I have so many people who have my email and afraid to change I would lose do many contacts. I have had comcast email for over 30 years and never had any problems until they forced this yahoo stuff on us. I heard once you are using yahoo you can not go back? There has to be something we can do to have a more user friendly email account without all this adds and junk emails.

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7 days ago

@user_rcjqha

I totally despise yahoo email! I did want to migrate but it was mandatory and I had not choice. I get so many ads but to get rid of them yahoo wants you to spend money for a plan to be add free? Ridiculous, The emails are hard to read and find. too much spam.

Any suggestions on how to get away from yahoo email? I have so many people who have my email and afraid to change I would lose do many contacts. I have had comcast email for over 30 years and never had any problems until they forced this yahoo stuff on us. I heard once you are using yahoo you can not go back? There has to be something we can do to have a more user friendly email account without all this adds and junk emails.

Depending on your browser you might be able to find an extension that blocks those ads. I have one for my browser and it works well.

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7 days ago

I am going to spend the next week or however long it takes to change my email address for everything to something else no matter how hard it is. I have Gmail and iCloud emails. Anything will be better than this terrible Yahoo account! I am so mad at Comcast. I will then change to another internet provider. Sorry Xfinity. You lose my account!

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XfinitySeth

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Sorry to hear the Yahoo transition for your email isn't working the way you need it to camicrist_7557. If there are any specific issues you're having or feedback you have, we're here for you! Please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

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You are not alone. Many people are going to leave Comcast due to this poor merger procedures. I have used Yahoo as a secondary email for year and it is a magnet for Spam.

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I also have a yahoo acct that I use to catch spam and have hesitated to migrate from Comcast as 'dictated' and now I am really concerned and scared to migrate. As someone else said we also pay $300 a month and at least Comcast email has spam filters but Yahoo filters are a joke and we should NOT have to pay for the version without spam UNLESS Comcast pays for it which sounds viable to me.

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6 days ago

user_rcjqha Thank you for reaching out to us here with your concerns regarding your email migration to Yahoo. To stop spam emails in Yahoo Mail, actively mark unwanted messages as spam to train filters, unsubscribe from legitimate marketing emails, and create custom filters for recurring spam phrases. On desktop, you can use "Block sender" via the three-dot menu, though users note that due to high volume, some spam may still bypass filters.

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Yes, you can use third party email clients like Thunderbird, Mac Mail, Outlook or others. The only difference is that you would need to use the Yahoo IMAP or POP server settings instead of those for Comcast.

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