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AOL is a news and entertainment website that provides the latest breaking news, politics, sports, weather, and lifestyle information.

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India
6 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I prefer reading news early in the morning shortly after waking up, because I want to ensure myself that everything is okay in the world. Especially, when the news is about coronavirus, I read all of it, because I really want to keep up with the times. Of course, sometimes i don't want to read news because it seems to me that they have a negative affection, however I never miss business news. I prefer this platform to get acquintedwith business news because it's intuitively clear and it has a very pleasant design actually. So, I would recommend all the news lovers this platform.

Date of experience: December 9, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I let AOL know that I would like to get a refund of my deceased Sister's last $39.99/month payment as she was deceased at the time that they processed her charge and that we could really use the money toward the funeral expenses. The AOL representative was insensitive and wouldn't talk to me as I wasn't on my Sister's account. When I said that this is a special situation the person said, I can't talk to you because you are not on the account. I was shocked at the lack of care and compassion.

Date of experience: November 15, 2021
Connecticut
48 reviews
72 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: August 8, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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AOL deletes all posts that are not in agreement with their radical left wing agenda. Their censorship is so bad that once they have deleted 2-3 of your posts they delete EVERY post thereafter. For example, I posted a "?" & the deleted it because of their guidelines.
AOL SUPPRESSES FREE SPEECH 7 SHOULD BE SUED FOR FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS BY THE ACLU.

Date of experience: July 5, 2021
Texas
17 reviews
58 helpful votes
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A couple of years ago I foolishly bought their pc protection, etc. I no longer even use their software, yet they keep saying I'm past due on my account with them and are sending it to a collection agency. Send away, I'll not be paying. Greedy, useless, and guaranteed to slow your computer down.

Date of experience: March 10, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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You deserve 0 stars Aol
January 18, 2021

They deactivated my account for "inactivity" when I had just been signed in about 20 days ago, that's absolutely stupid, and bad business. They want to "welcome me back" but absolutely 100% screw that. I'll stick with gmail, thanks. But that's absolute hog poop. I genuinely dislike AOL in the deepest way possible. There is no way to recover it, I have tried all the options, just seems like they've gotten so greedy that unless you pay a monthly fee they're coming up with excuses and lies to deactivate accounts.

Date of experience: January 17, 2021
Massachusetts
12 reviews
19 helpful votes
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The biased news reporting on aol open page is an absolute autrocity. They obviously think i'm retarged to put up the bull$#*! and lies they constantly circulate. Looking to end the relationship with them for good. Can't wait.

Date of experience: January 9, 2021
Idaho
6 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Hey! Wake-up!
August 18, 2019

Aol! Do you read any reviews at all? Check out your Accu Weather reviews and get rid of them. You're stuck in the mud. Move it or lose it AOL!

Date of experience: August 17, 2019
Massachusetts
3 reviews
27 helpful votes
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I thought AOL was dead and wish they were. I logged into my account one day (I should say attempted) and was locked out. I called them up and they told me they assigned my account to someone else (I had had it for years). All my emails, everything gone and in someone else's hands... Criminal!

Date of experience: June 20, 2019
India
22 reviews
148 helpful votes
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I created AOL email keeping in mind the safety and security. And I like the service updates notifications that I get time-to-time from AOL admin, so I can keep my contact details and double check the security system and keep it updated.
AOL email service is quite a relief for a user that also helps making a spam free email service.

Date of experience: May 13, 2019
Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Running with It
September 4, 2018

Finally got it on and traveling with it everywhere so hopefully will get some contacts soon. Also put it on Facebook and Instagram so that I would get a lot more visibility and shared it with everyone that I knew. The company has been very supportive of me and I appreciate that. Hope to get some responses soon.

Date of experience: September 3, 2018
Italy
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I enjoy a lot...
August 8, 2018

I enjoy a lot of their consumer articles. I use it to stay up to date on recalls and other important scam warnings. I use AOL when I travel and I've always been happy with their service.

Date of experience: August 7, 2018
District of Columbia
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I am a regular user of aol mail and services from last 3 years got no problem with them.The support staff of aol is really fast and good.New features as aol gold and desktop are reliable to customers.

Date of experience: July 14, 2018
Israel
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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AOL.Com
June 4, 2018

Up to very recently AOL provided excellent customer support. But today I had a very Frustrating & bad experience with the Technical support team of AOl. I have been a Member of AOL for some 25 years. MY AOL Gold suddenly Stopped Working and I called the Technical Support Team of AOL and was told by the same group that once provided the service to contact another team specifically for AOL Gold. Could not reach them at the number provided Several calls during the work hours. Tried to send message by email not possible as they had shut down any further inputs by email tried to call accounts not possible. Went back to Tech Support same story. Made 4 rounds. Tried to download AOL Gold as per Posted Directions not completing and shutting off. With This frustrating experience from the technical experts of AOL I Just Wonder How President Donald Trump is going to make America Great Again. He is one great President but somehow something has gone wrong in The Professionalism of the AOL Staff.

Date of experience: June 4, 2018
Illinois
11 reviews
27 helpful votes
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Here is how they could be better--
* Run fewer depressing stories
* Run more stories that are uplifting
* Don't be so slanted in political ideology--stop with the hate!
* Write articles that educate and make people think

Date of experience: May 15, 2018
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Aol Technical Support We are providing technical support services for USA users if you have come any kind of issues related of Aol Email just you have to dial Customer support number *******039.Our experts will resolve your issues instant.
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Date of experience: May 30, 2017
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Professional Summary
March 11, 2017

Thank you for your magnificent support! The resume template made this writing process more organized and met my professional requirement expectations.

Date of experience: March 10, 2017
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Everything went wel. Very Happy

Just need to know about the insurance that I purchased do I receive anything in the now confirmed that I have the insurance

Date of experience: February 20, 2017
Mike B.
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Zillow has ruined me. They have listed & RE-LISTED my gorgeous Algonquin, Illinois, Barringtton Hills boarder area property / scenic road designated / 150 foot pines / steps away from Presidential Park / steps away from fox river / located next to a mansion & the approved soon to be 25 acre finest development in the largest recreational waterway in the USA, for a $9,500 auction price as apposed to the $349,000 4 acre property. STAY FAR AWAY FROM ZILLOW.

Date of experience: February 18, 2017
Arizona
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Refund
February 14, 2017

I finally got my refund from dresslily after never getting my order. I ordered back in November. First they gave me a partial refund then I just got my full refund after I gave them a terrible review. I still will not order again from them.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017