As I understand it, the purpose of whatever information analytics are used by Google and others is to try to tailor ad delivery. Magazines and newspapers have been doing the same thing for years, though perhaps not always with the same information. No one tracks or cares about how many times a week YOU go to the bank or what route you take to get there. Anyone who wants to track me is more than welcome to do so. The thing is, the alternative is a string and two tin cans. People aren't willing to ditch their smartphones, most people aren't bothered by the data accumulation aspect.

Mine works fine . Yahoo in the news lately said starting this week they encrypt all emails for security enhancements. And all searches and messenger stuff to follow. So maybe they hit a snafu on your server or you not accessing with HTTPS or something simple.. Hopefully it will automatically fix it self fast for you... Might help it along by running something like CCleaner to clear your internet cache and restart the computer to make sure a good flush of dns cache.

Jasdip you should definitely be using a more updated and more secure version of IE, or any browser for that matter, they are updated to eliminate security vulnerabilities. I have IE 11 on my windows 7 machines. I never use it but I keep it updated. I would suggest going to at least 10. You should be getting these as critical updates through your Windows updates, are you getting those updates monthly or as issued? They are very important. You can check through the windows updates in control panel.

check on your firefox with adblock plus that you do have the easylist subscription enabled on it. up top click on tools, adblock plus, filter preferences, make sure you do have easylist there in the filter list checked and also at the very bottom it says allow some non intrusive ads be sure to uncheck that you don't want any ads. edit to add if you do have an ad pop up run your cursor all around the ad and a little tab will pop up saying block click on that and it will put that ad in the blocked list you can do that with any ads, adblock plus will then add them to your list. This post was edited by ravencajun on Mon, Oct 28, 13 at 13:33