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“Ad City”

written by Alrikor on 26/11/2013

I use an ad-blocker at home and it's not really an issue, but at work when I want to check e-mail this is not an option. When you try to sign in the following happens:

1) An animated ad pops up.
2) A normal ad pops up in the background.
3) A second normal ad pops up in the middle of your screen. When you close it and then go to click on the user name entry box again, the ad pops back up again. You need to basically leave the ad up and move it to the side because every single time you click the user name or password box, it triggers another ad to pop up.

Again, these aren't issues when you have a pop-up blocker, but it's... kind of insulting, really. You can tell they are intentionally trying to be as annoying as possible with the ads. I mean, whose bright idea was it to pop an ad in the middle of the screen every single time you try to enter your user name?

Beyond that it's "decent". You can't tie it to a phone alert system unless you pay (something Gmail does for free). You can check it like normal on a smart phone, of course, but forget trying to send out a message - the default text that comes up with "Enter e-mail here" or whatever cannot be deleted on phone browsers, meaning you can't actually put in any e-mail addresses to send out.

Also, the "remember my credentials" option is a joke and doesn't work at all. And why would they want it to when you clicking on the login/password box brings up more ads?

This is now the e-mail service that I use for all of the websites where I am relatively sure I'll get spammed. It has no value because I seldom feel like checking it. So, yeah, if you use ad-blocker and need a spam bucket e-mail, this isn't bad, but there are better options (like Gmail) for a serious e-mail account. That said, for being my spam account it does do a decent job of weeding out the spam e-mails and putting them into the spam folder for me.