14 DAY TRIAL // The new Yahoo Mail, besides the aesthetic changes and the revamped inbox and composer, also comes with a few new bonus features, previously only available to paying users. However, it also comes with 1 TB of free storage.
The free storage, though, is actually a step down, since it previously offered unlimited storage. Yahoo boasts that 1 TB is enough for 6,000-years worth of emails for the average user and it's certainly more than you get with Gmail, for example. Yahoo also offers 1 TB of free storage with Flickr, incidentally, though it's unclear whether the storage is shared.
Still, users have some things to be happy about. The new Yahoo Mail now offers disposable email addresses for free to all users. This way, you can create purpose-specific addresses when you need to sign up to a shadier site or to a newsletter you're not that keen on.
The feature was only available to Yahoo Mail Pro users in the past. Another Pro feature that is now free is POP access, for email clients like Thunderbird. This has been a major downside for any advanced user still relying on Yahoo Mail.
The ads are here to stay though; if you want a completely ad-free experience, you still have to get a Pro account, which is now $50 per year. Existing paying users can keep their current subscriptions, though there's no real reason to do that at this point.
The new desktop website is going live for people using the English version in the US, Canada, UK, Philippines, Malaysia, India, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. The mobile apps are available everywhere. Yahoo unveiled the new Mail on the service's 16th birthday. The company boasts that 100 million people log into Mail each day and that 425 million use the service each month.