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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows

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Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows - gHacks Tech News
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The new Outlook email application for Windows displays ads disguised as regular emails to users. The classic Mail app did not.
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    The moment I saw them trying to do this, I switched to Thunderbird.

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      You were using it before? Why?

      Edit: yeah, fuck me for asking a simple question

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        The biggest reason i think. Is because it is used in most buisnesses. So it is easy to use the same email client at home for most folk.

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        Because I had been using MSN (which became Outlook) since 2001 and didn’t really have a reason to switch.

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