Once upon a time, signing up for a free email account meant bombarding everyone you ever sent a message to with in-message advertisements. But those days are long gone. Or at least a few days gone. Yahoo! has removed the tagline advertisements that had been automatically appended to any message sent from a free email account.
We haven't done an extensive survey of free webmail providers, but we believe this means you can send ad-free messages with Yahoo! Mail and Gmail, while AOL and Windows Live Hotmail still tacks a message to the bottom of each email. If you know of any other ad-free, or ad-saturated services, let us know in the comments.
[via Lifehacker]
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5-19-2008 @ 1:27PM
Martin said...
Zenbe (www.zenbe.com), which you profiled some time ago, is ad-free.
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5-19-2008 @ 5:17PM
velocitystrike said...
Oh this is fantastic. I hate sending off a semi important email with confidential details for it to say "Yahoo! For a better inbox! blah blah blah". It looked terribly tacky, although I guess that's what I get for being cheap.
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5-20-2008 @ 8:03AM
Quikboy said...
You don't get the ads at the bottom of a Hotmail message if you use the Windows Live Mail client. Or you could go for the I'm Initiative, and get a more friendlier message saying how you're helping a cause by using Hotmail.
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5-21-2008 @ 1:00PM
codeman38 said...
It appears that AOL's webmail no longer appends an advertising tagline either. Or at least that was the case when I just tested it now...
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