I’ve got an Anti-AOL reader who recently used their AOL email to whistleblow in such a way that their life is now possibly endangered. Given that this person got to this point over not knowing how to send anonymous email anonymously, I thought a quick tutorial on how to do it right, especially if you […]
Update 11-2015: There is no AOL Classic Page. The last known version was removed from aol.com back in 2011. Please stop trying to find it. What you want does not exist. The article below references something you will no longer find. [DON’T] Try this link for the Old AOL Classic look: http://www.aol.com/?src=classic title=”This link does […]
Oh, boy, how one thing always leads to another, especially with AOL. Tonight a reader asked how to access the AOL Classic home page (the answer is you can’t, because AOL Classic is gone). Once that was sorted out (I told her to use http://netscape.aol.com instead – it’s ugly, but it’s basically the same thing), […]
There are lots of stories going around about AOL lately. Let’s clear some of them up. Myth #1: AOL no longer sells dial-up access. False. AOL still sells dial-up and BYOA (Bring-Your-Own-Access). The good news is, AOL is down to 4 million subscribers from an all-time high of 25 million subscribers in 2005, with more […]
Updated 11-24-16 to change recommended add-ons and browser tools to include McAfee’s Site Advisor instead of Web of Trust. Web of Trust is currently not available for use in most web browsers over data-selling and other issues that have recently come to light. This may come as a surprise, but you’re not staying safe by […]
One of my readers, koshinbay13, has a few questions about coding a website to work for AOL users. After reading about AOL’s caching proxy servers, he’s looking for PHP code to prevent an AOL user’s cookies from getting passed to the next AOL users who show up on his site. I can’t answer his PHP […]
Don’t forget to let me know what you use instead of AOL in the comments! The question, “What do you use instead of AOL?” has been put to me from time to time. I never answer it, wanting to appear unbiased, but I always promise to discuss it someday, then I never do. But what […]
Updated 7-1-09. Since I wrote this post it’s risen to the #1 slots for the keyword searches mentioned below, so to save you time, if you’re here for the phone number to report a hacked AOL or AIM account, it’s 1-800-307-7969. Tonight I typed “report hacked aol email” into Google and got, among other irrelevant […]
Patty, the reader with the AOL proxy/ AOL Trojan scare a few months ago, wrote me again to say that she finally quit AOL. While I am – as anyone can imagine – happy for her (she’s with Earthlink now, which is a big step up), canceling AOL is, as always, fraught with peril, trepidation […]
Today “NP” asked me via email: I’m beginning to see the light! But I need someone to answer a question for me before I let loose of my three-year connection to AOL (I basically just use it to get online). Somehow, I sense you’re that person. (no pressure!) I’m[…]kind of new to this technical stuff, […]
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