I've been using the same hobbymail for years.  As of last week I cannot send emails because there is no "send" button showing.  Is there some kind of software upgrade I missed?  I've done some online research and see there are scam Yahoo upgrades out there.  

Can anyone provide a link to the www. with the legitimate upgrade, if there is one?  Thank you in advance.  

I use the Yahoo app for My android. No issues.

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The problem is only using Opera Browser.   My hobby email works fine in Chrome.  I've tried to keep my hobbying and porn in Opera and my real life in Chrome.  

A lot of date-sharing happens without our knowledge.  For example my Facebook is always pulling names from my hotmail and suggesting I friend them on Facebook, including a scumbag lawyer I have to deal with.  I've never read the fine print before clicking "accept terms" on a lot of stuff.

I do not leave my hobby phone in the car now because my new car reads the names from the contact list.  Was driving with the wife and received an incoming text I was expecting.  The radio shuts down and says "incoming text from Tyra, do you want to hear it?".  My wife looks at me and asks" "who the hell is Tyra?"

My GF has plenty of problems with the Yahoo Mail web interface. Many times the send (and other buttons) disappear for no reason.  Happens in various browsers.

If I was going to make heavy use of Yahoo mail on a PC I'd probably just use a local email client like Thunderbird to access the account.

YahooMail can be very buggy when it interfaces with certain browsers. I have found Gmail to be more stable. You do not have to use Chrome to use it. In fact I advise not using Chrome, since both Gmail and Chrome are Google products and tend to be very interrelated. If you are trying to keep hobby and porn on a different browser, the relationship between Chrome and Gmail will bust you at some point.

you're life much better that day. Hopefully you had a clever response. And I do use Yahoo mail without any issues.

It's not that Yahoo isn't compatible with certain browsers, it's just that Yahoo has been running a script/plug-in on their pop-up and browser ads that slows down yahoo mail to a crawl.  The script/plug-in in question is "pr.comet.yahoo" and if you look at the bottom left of your yahoo window you can see it say "waiting for pr.comet.yahoo".  This isn't a virus or malware, it's just bloatware that yahoo installed to run their ads.  There are many online forums of people complaining about this but to date Yahoo refuses to remove it.  People have reported it's taken more than 5 minutes just to load one email.  It's a dumb move by Yahoo to refuse to do anything about it, they are already losing people to Gmail and this doesn't help them retain any more customers.  

That company cares absolutely nothing about privacy. Worse, really--Google regards privacy not just as an outdated but harmless relic that they'll allow you to indulge in if you must, but as an impediment to their business model, to be undermined and worked around in every possible way.

 
One example: You do some discreet Googling in your browser's private mode and then clear your history and cookies for good measure. You've pretty well covered your tracks, right? Think again. If you had a Google account open--for Gmail, Hangouts, Drive, YouTube, whatever--every one of those searches was quietly logged in your account activity. Did Google tell you they were going to do that? Probably, in the fine print somewhere. Would most of us think to check for such a thing?

 
It's not that Google wants to get us busted. Most of the company's decision makers probably don't care much what consenting adults do with their money and their tingly bits. They just want to give us a "seamless  online experience," and incidentally to maximize their ad revenue. But whatever their motivation, Google is as determined to track me as I am to stay untracked, and they have a lot more money and technical know-how for their agenda than I have for mine.

 
So I use Outlook for my correspondence in the Playground of the Damned.™ Microsoft may not be up for any ACLU or Electronic Frontier Foundation awards, but they seem to be less obsessively anti-privacy than Google. And since I never use Bing (does anyone?) or the Microsoft browsers, I figure I'm leaving fewer bread crumbs in any one place.

If you think Yahoo cares any more or less about your privacy than Google does, you're sorely mistaken. Yahoo also had 1 Billion (aka basically everyone) of it's users' private data leaked without disclosing it to them for 5 years. The only reason it was disclosed at-all was due to an audit that has occurring as part of them being purchased by Verizon.  

 
Here's something scary for you to try. Open a command prompt on your windows PC and type "ipconfig /displaydns" and search through that list. It'll have every escort site you've ever been to. You can get rid of it by typing "ipconfig /flushdns", but will you remember to do that every time?

Also, there's no way around it. The DNS function is integral to your network adapter's function. Your phone is doing the same thing, it's just not as easily viewable. Also your mobile carrier is logging your DNS queries while you're on their network, so no privacy there without recourse.  

 

So if you think you're safe, you're likely less safe because you're going to get lax about it. If you want security, you need to use a VPN that connects to TOR. You need to kill your browser cookies/caches every time you use your computer. You need to use a DNS encryption service (like DNScrypt) to hide your searches from your iSP. Then you'll have a baseline of security and therefore privacy.  

 
If you're  not doing *all* of the above, you're wide open. Don't tell people you're magically safe because you use yahoo mail...

In a previous post you said Airvpn was enough.

https://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-12/re-lol-that-assumes-we-are-tech-savvy-andveven-know-what-a-vpn-is-919317?frmSearch=1#919317

You are now saying that even with an encrypted VPN that you are not "safe" unless you combine it with Tor?  

I thought  "ipconfig /displaydns"  was internal. Are you saying that with a VPN your ISP can log dns requests??

Yes, a vpn like airvpn is plenty to not be low hanging fruit, which I've said multiple times. Everyone who's using TER should use one.  

ipconfig /displaydns is internal, but those DNS entries are just cached entries that you asked your ISP for. DNS queries are in cleartext unless you're encrypting them with a 3rd party service. Your web surfing will take a noticeable performance hit with DNScrypt, so pushing your entire connection over a VPN and just using a public DNS (like google) will keep you lost in the noise enough to not cause suspicion.  

 
What I was saying in my previous post in this thread was that you're not safe with just using a different email provider. You're safe if you encrypt and anonymize your traffic and aren't leaking cleartext DNS queries like a sieve.

 
The problem is, TOR can be broken, VPN can be broken, but together it's much, much harder. Likely hard enough that the people who are hunting for you won't bother. This isn't absolute "russian hacker security" granted, but more than enough for what you're doing.

Fair Enough. I understand the need or a VPN but since this is just a misdemeanor I don't think anybody is going to be trying too hard to find us.

No, certainly not. They'd rather mop up BP fools.

Just to clarify, I don't use Yahoo for hobbying either. The lack of security may be more sheer incompetence in Yahoo's case, but still.