The service is banned by the parental controls

Aug 31, 2007 13:03 GMT  ·  By

Following the recent release of Yahoo Mail final version, numerous users migrated to the giant portal's technology. But some of them were surprised to see that Yahoo Mail is not actually working while sometimes, its main page is not even loading. Well, there can be numerous causes for this problem but one of the most common reasons might be represented by the parental controls installed on your computer. Yahoo admits it and sustains that they are currently working on a way to fix it because most of the parental controls are flagging the Yahoo Mail technology as dangerous. Obviously, you can access the service by removing it from the parental controls or by giving it access.

"Currently the new Yahoo! Mail is blocked for users under parental controls. We're still working out the finer details of how the new Mail will interact with parental controls, and until we get that all figured out, they're default-set to block _the entire program_. We know - what a pain! But this is the process for finishing up a user interface that's going to be used by millions of people," Yahoo explains.

"In the meantime, if you'd like to start using the new Yahoo! Mail right now, you might want to speak with your parents about lifting parental control restrictions. Thanks for your patience! We're confident you're going to enjoy the new Mail."

Yahoo Mail can be a very useful technology if we think that it offers unlimited storage size bundled with web-based Yahoo Messenger, spam filters and numerous other functions. As you might have heard, Yahoo Mail is currently involved in an important battle with Gmail, the mail solution powered by the Mountain View company Google.

Recently, the two parent firms challenged one another with bigger storage capacity but, as far we can see, Yahoo Mail won the competition with its unlimited size. However, a Google representative said, as a joke or not, that Gmail plans to offer unlimited storage capacity plus one, just to be a little bit bigger in size than Yahoo.