AOL

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AOL highlights bias news sites that preaches opinions masquerading as fact. No response or other opinion is allowed.

Much like a rerun of "Love American Style," AOL just hasn't aged well. Its Mac software no longer works on the Yosemite OS for Mac (though AOL says it is a priority to fix it, it has now been a "priority" since October 2014), and its Windows software is hoary with age. Not that I use it much at all, but every once and a while I think to myself, "I wonder what AOL is like these days" and I will take a whirl at its website, play around with its Desktop software, and tinker in its AOL Mail. It's like time has stood still. It kind of works, sort of, but not really well. I like the idea of a walled-garden proprietary desktop program -- but it has to do something, or provide some benefit that the web itself, unwalled, does not provide. AOL fails in this regard.

Much like Hollywood has done on some film properties (like Star Trek and Spiderman), AOL needs to be "re-imagined." I'm sure I'll look at AOL again in the next few months, but I expect nothing pleasing about it, except, a dose of nostalgia.

I have been trying to contact aol for over 2 weeks now and have got nothing in return. I have filed requests for assistance on their website, left voice mails, sent emails and received nothing. This is causing a loss of business and is a serious burden on our company. The only this I get back is an automated email saying "Thank you for contacting AOL Email Support. In regards with the concern, please contact AOL Postmaster and send a request for support. For help on how to contact AOL Postmaster, please follow the steps below. 1. Visit http://postmaster.aol.com 2. Click on the "Postmaster Support Request" link 3. Fill out information under the "For Internet Senders (non-AOL members):" Note: AOL Postmaster is the department of AOL who handles incoming and outgoing emails. You may or may not receive a response email from them once you filed for the support ticket but rest assure that they are working for it. If the problem persists, please file for another ticket after 24 to 48 hours. Please reply to this email if you have further questions. "

ONLY ISSUE IS THIS WAS 2 WEEKS AGO AND I REPLIED SEVERAL TIMES WITH NOTHING IN RETURN NOT EVEN AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THEY RECEIVED THE EMAIL.

I don't use AOL for news content as there are better places. If you look on the net about AOL, all you see are comments from people equating them to an unrelenting variant that they want gone because they might get a brain infection. If you don't believe me, check out Consumer Affairs. The latest is that AOL has joined the sensationalist bandwagon and will silence and delete posts from anyone that's not a good fit. For that, I feel fine. I don't have AOL brain rot. But I'm sort of stuck with them for another reason.
I have Verizon email accounts that AOL controls. They are good to have because Verizon email is not scanned by search engines for data mining to sell you stuff. Now, if you have an email portal like Outlook with everything under one roof, you can look at all your emails without logging in to each account on line ~ that is until they no longer sync with AOL's servers as many people experienced. It was a deliberate move by AOL because it only happens to emails you receive, not what you send.

In a nutshell, instead of AOL just notifying account holders to generate a password on their site for each one, load it into your application, but keep your old password because you'll need one to log into AOL online should you want to punish yourself, until you do so, you will have to get your mail in AOL because AOL will not send it to your email program. That's why I have a program like Outlook ~ to make life simple.

I waited endlessly to get AOL on the phone to fix things, got disconnected several times, spoke to morons that were clueless, was stirred and shaken and repeated the same crap a few more times until I finally figured it out myself. Even though AOL could have made life easy, they chose to torture people like me, that just want to read their latest emails by forcing the need to log into their garbage site like a hungry rat so that they could ramp up site traffic. Even Verizon concluded it was a big error to invest in AOL-Yahoo. Do yourself a favor, get the AOL vaccine and also a booster if they're still around.