about 5 seconds were enough for me to decide that i hate the new Yahoo! Mail.

yahoo! today released the beta of their new yahoo! mail service to all US subsribers. the new interface is an outlook copycat (preview pane, folder management). it works pretty fast, too. but there is one MAJOR issue as far as i am concerned. the advertising.

they have a vertical ad bar on the right, and 3 ad buttons on the bottom left. at least on my laptop this takes too much of the screen real-estate, and the dynamic ad on the right is driving me crazy.

you can still use the previous version of yahoo! mail, but sooner or later this is going to be out of beta, i am seriously considering phasing out of yahoo! mail. i have been using gmail for a while too, but i don’t like the fact that they took this religous stand with regard to folders (they want to make users use tags and search rather than folders). i like filing my stuff into folders, especially with the amount of emails i get.