Why am I receiving thes "sponsered" email spam?

I do not see an option to opt out of the ads in my settings menu.  Where exactly is this option?  Can you provide a screen shot to help??  Could you give something a bit more detailed by way of instructions?

I don't have the new email, but from the tutorial video I noticed there is an option for "Add Free Mail", settings menu is the Gear icon in the upper right corner:

Dmitriy

I have also paid for AT&T internet and email (not to mention landline and cell phone) for years and I do not get that option for ad free mail when I click on the gear.  I don't really care about ads over to the side, but the one that is actually IN my inbox at the top is very annoying.

(I also find the new email is much slower to load new messages - and this is on a new computer with Uverse internet - I can't imagine how long it must take on an older computer!)

Editing to add that in the place of that "ad free mail" option, I have "about ads" - I have already "opted out" of interest based advertising, so that may be why - but either way, it does nothing to remove the advertising "email" in my inbox!

  Too bad the Ad Free Mail option shown in the video doesn't reflect reality here. Unless of course it requires Enable conversations to be checked. But I really like being able to sort mail by sender so I can do a quick visual scan for spam in the Inbox and non-spam in the Spam folder before downloading mail to my computer.

  There was some nastiness in an earlier thread about us users being set in our ways and resisting change/progress.  At work I migrated from Outlook to Gmail. There was a considerable learning curve but my experience with Gmail was pretty consistently positive.  I found Gmail to be richly featured, well thought out and pleasant to use.

  Contrast this with AT&T Yahoo mail. I started out with AT&T Worldnet in June 1996. After e-mail was farmed out to Yahoo I've seen the service go progressively downhill.  A few days ago I was notified that the missed-spam@att.net mailbox was not accepting mail because it was overflowing. This was a place to forward spam that one had missed in the browser and had been downloaded to one's email client. I suspect it was no longer functional after AT&T left Postini but now it appears it is not even monitored.

  So what does this all mean?

1) This new mail system probably was designed for smart phones and tablets.  The desktop and laptop market is fading and not a concern for upper management.

2) AT&T may want to cut its expenses for the e-mail business.  It may be low-balling Yahoo or Yahoo may even pay AT&T for the privilege of getting our eyeballs. Marissa may be the one cutting expenses and thus quality.

3) AT&T may want to get out of the Internet business.  This is kind of hard to imagine strategically but stranger things have happened.  Remember CEOs get paid for their contacts not their performance.  Make things bad enough so customers leave then they can shut it down claiming it's no longer a growth business.

The underlying assumption here is that no one in their right mind would insult customers with an advertisement as the first message in one's e-mail unless one didn't give a d-mn about them.

As I was gritting my teeth a few days ago I was wondering how much trouble it would be to move to a new email address and ISP.  Decided it was doable - have a few months of overlap, then cut the cord. And a small local ISP might be a tiny bit harder for the NSA to vacuum data from.

I don't have any such "Ad Free" option.

I can't find any such option

There is no option to stop the advertisements. The employee guy is wrong. You can stop adds tailored to you but you will still get advertisements. Your option to stop the adds is also stored on a cookie. Once you delete cookies you have to do that every time.

******Did you also see where they now SCAN your email for specific words to help advertise to you directly? I wonder if they also think its ok to listen to my calls since it's ok to read my email.

And I pay for that mail box by having AT&T internet and phone. I also have Comcast so ditching AT&T will be easy.

By the end of the month I will have disposed of everything AT&T. There worse than Google now.

How dare they put adds in my in box and read my mail... SHAME SHAME SHAME

Actually there is one way to stop them, and you said it. Change ISPs. And now that ATT is buying Directtv, I feel like I'm doubly screwed. They sure kept that quiet till the last minute. I was just considering doing a bundle thru Directtv, but if it takes me right back to ATT, I may have to consider another ISP.