2 things: 1) gmail has been doing this for years, and 2) yahoo mail has become the spam inbox of the internet. I basically only use because some websites have wised up to mailinator.com. So the only thing Yahoo is going to learn about me from my inbox is that I get a ton of Cialis emails, and I have a lot of relatives dying in nigeria leaving me lots of cash.
GMail, on the other hands, is where the problem lies. Too bad not that many people care
I don't understand this. You put your junk emails in Yahoo!, and the ones you care about with Gmail (correct me if I'm wrong). You have a problem with Gmail, even though that they do this has been public for years and you chose them for certain Emails. Surely the people who care about this just don't use Gmail?
I have gmail, yahoo and hotmail (outlook?) accounts. I use gmail for main account and like you I used to use the other two for filtering spam. I have recently logged in to my yahoo and hotmail account to see if anything changed or new happening. From my limited first hand few minutes experience I felt that both of them looked better and loaded faster than gmail have.
I have not spend enough time them to see if they provide all the granulated and edge case features I have come to enjoy on gmail, but they have definitely come a long way and I would say in some cases even better than gmail.
Gmail is starting to look old and has been really slow for me.
As a childish basic test, I timed loading gmail and yahoo mail. Chrome browser, FWIW. Browser open, and I just clicked the related bookmarks. How scientific of me!!!! Anyway....
5 secs for gmail. (used for junk, lots of mail)
2 secs for yahoo mail. (main email)
1 sec, almost instant for outlook. (empty)
So, I think we can forget the outlook speed. But I was surprised at the difference between gmail and yahoo. The cynical brain cells are also shocked that gmail isn't some how accelerated in chrome.
GMail, on the other hands, is where the problem lies. Too bad not that many people care