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New Anti-Phishing Protection in Gmail on Android

Gmail app users on Android, rejoice -- Google just added phishing protection. If you try to click on a link deemed to be problematic, you'll get warned: “The site you are trying to visit has been identified as a forgery intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal, or other sensitive information,’ the notice states. “You can continue to [the link] at your own risk.” Read mor…
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Using AdBlock? Using Yahoo! Mail?

Not for long, you're not. Looks like Yahoo is testing code on Yahoo! Mail that would disallow AdBlock users from accessing their webmail platform. Read more over at the Consumerist .

Gmail: Reach the people you know more easily

On January 9th, Google announced that your Google+ contacts (people in your G+ circles) will now automatically show up as contacts inside of Gmail. This isn't really a good thing, from my perspective. A lot of (OK, just about all of) my G+ connections are acquaintances or …

More Misdirected Messages

In what may become a recurring theme , Consumerist reports today about a financial institution sending daily emails to somebody who is not actually a customer of that institution . If you're sending valuable transactional notifications via email, here are a few questions th…

The Transactional Unsub

Is there ever a good reason as to why you, email sender, might want to include an unsubscribe link in your transactional email messages? Why yes, yes there is . This isn't the first time I've seen somebody have to resort to publicly crying "uncle" due to the d…

Payday Loan Marketer Settles with FTC

If you ask me, payday loans are a permission challenged industry, when it comes to email marketing. Companies are buying leads, selling leads, working with multiple data partners, emailing at a high frequency, always pushing to get more mail out, find new signup streams, etc. …

Internet Miracle Cures For Everything!

Quick Hit: Today, Consumerist talks about Slate's Big Money blog, where Chadwick Matlin asks and answers the question, "Who’s to blame for these hideous Internet ads that just won’t go away?" Read it here .

AT&T's 'American Idol' Text Message Stunt Backfires

Consumerist has the story. Some random (but large) number of AT&T subscribers got SMS-spammed by their cell provider. Lame. The NY Times quotes Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless, saying that the message went to subscribers who had voted for “Idol” singers in …