Rogers needs money

My personal email is with Rogers, and I've been using the web interface for quite some time. This morning, I discover that the account I'm paying for now sprouts ads like some low-rent "free" email account. It's quite irritating. When I open the page, the right 1/4 is now occupied by ads, which allows me to click on a small triangle to hide the ad . . . but the next time I change to another message, it's right back in my face.

There's a helpful link added to the page, saying "Learn more about ads", which I was hoping would include a way to shut the damned things off permanently. No such luck. It opens a "help" page which includes the oh-so-useful information:

Advertisements in Rogers Yahoo! Mail

Recently, Rogers and Yahoo! jointly introduced advertising content to the Rogers Yahoo! Mail service.

More questions? Click this link.

The link? Goes to the self-service support page. Very helpful indeed.

Update: The little "hide ad" control is just small enough that it's easy to miss the control and click in the frickin' ad. This is getting old fast.

Update, the second: I've temporarily opened the comments on this post, as I've been getting email responding to the post that I'd like to include. (I just hope I remember to turn it off before the spam-comment-bots find it open.

Update, the third (16 November): You can reduce the sucktastic all-ads-in-your-face, all-the-time by switching back to what Rogers amusingly calls Mail Classic. Ads, but in a much less obtrusive, less aggravating way.

Of course, there's no guarantee that they won't pull Mail Classic without warning . . .