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 @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). |
@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.