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 @ptrc bwahahaha    @ptrc I am going to log off and make a rye flour mug cake update: progress on mug cake, none on logging off  @ptrc I've always called useless error advisories as "Change the colour of the error message", first driven to do so by Microsoft.  @ptrc I wonder what benefit there is to having the ads in your mailbox. Is it that you are less likely to ignore it? They seem to be pushing it as recommended, which likely means they benefit in some way. @ptrc They just show ads as unread emails, if you don't notice that small "Ad" label you might click trying to read it.
Also don't ask why it's in german, long story lol Outlook inbox, the first "unrea…  @ptrc Yeeeeeeee. ADS EVERYWHERE. Kind of a thing that EVERY SINGLE CORPO WANT'S TO PUSH THEM. Even they don't count in the fact that it makes software and web unusable.
 @ptrc Also, the new desktop app is not such a thing. It's a fucking web app in disguise   @ptrc Are the adverts you would potentially receive based on the mining the text in your emails? @ptrc oh, that took me a couple reads to understand. This is "would you prefer your ads to take a lot of screen space, but be clearly separated and easy to ignore, or do you want your ads small but interspersed with content and maybe hard to identify?" I'm not sure how I feel about this now being an option. I'm sure people are picking the latter (picture on left) thinking it's just "no ads" though....   @jernej__s @dwaites @ptrc @cstross if it's a web app, select the second, then use uBlock Origin to make filters based on the boxes that show the ads on the sides. If you get them in your inbox, you'll never pull this off. @jernej__s @dwaites @ptrc @cstross also, if you're persistent enough, you could try and setup an email client like #ThunderBird and you'll miss the ads too. All this said from the perspective of a sadly corporate user (meaning: my company chose this shit), so YMMV. @jernej__s @ptrc @cstross oh man this interleaved ad thing is gonna be such a dumpster fire. There is no way Microsoft is going to QC those for phishing links; we saw with Google how that went. Imagine what is possible if they can microtarget based on inbox content.  @dwaites @jernej__s @ptrc They're going to let random threat actors inject raw javascript into your email inbox. Where it will be executed and install all sorts of malware on Microsoft's customer base. (When I saw the shit about Outlook365 importing all email messages to Microsoft's cloud without consent last year I deleted Outlook and deactivated Microsoft Mail on my one Windows PC, replaced with Thunderbird for my own purposes, and I'm never going to let that shit back in again.) @cstross @dwaites @ptrc I run my own mail server, and I've got one mailbox that's probably 200 GB of random, mostly unimportant crap. I've been thinking about using the new Outlook in some VM, and add that mailbox just to see what'd happen (and if Microsoft would try to cache it all on their servers). @jernej__s @cstross @ptrc would be interesting to see if they slurp it all or just envelopes. In IMAP you can choose. @dwaites @jernej__s @ptrc IIRC they slurp it all (and use it for training their LLMs).   |
@ptrc pls choose where u want the ads!!!