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    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 6 15:34:29 2024
    From the «please give me more ads» department:
    Feed: OSnews
    Title: Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:56:42 -0500
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/138520/microsoft-sneaks-ads-into-the-new-outlook-for-windows/


    The migration from the classic Mail and Calendar app to the new Outlook app[1] is in full swing already. Microsoft announced the deprecation of the classic apps[2] in favor of a new Outlook app in June 2023. It introduced the new Outlook app to Insider builds a month later and announced that it would
    enforce the migration in early 2024.

    Not all users are migrated at this point. Those who have been migrated already or installed the Outlook app directly, may notice several differences between the new Outlook app and the classic Mail app.

    One of the main differences turns an ad-free email experience into one with ads. You may see ads in the inbox in the new Outlook.
    ↫ Martin Brinkmann[3]

    Ads disguised as emails in your inbox. Microsoft will not rest until Windows resembles Times Square. What a trash fire of an operating system.

    Links:
    [1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/17/report-microsoft-starts-mail-and-calendar-app-migration-to-the-inferior-outlook-app/ (link)
    [2]: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/17/say-goodbye-to-windows-mail-and-calendar-app-and-welcome-the-new-outlook-for-windows/ (link)
    [3]: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/02/02/microsoft-sneaks-ads-into-the-new-outlook-for-windows/ (link)

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Tue Feb 6 15:45:32 2024
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    One of the main differences turns an ad-free email experience into
    one with ads. You may see ads in the inbox in the new Outlook. ↫
    Martin Brinkmann[3]

    Ads disguised as emails in your inbox. Microsoft will not rest until
    Windows resembles Times Square. What a trash fire of an operating
    system.

    The siren song of "ad revenue" is all but impossible for any company to
    resist. The web showed that anywhere there was user attention there
    was opportunity to listen to the siren song of add revenue. Now ever
    more locations are realizing that "if we just put ads in here, we can
    listen to that siren song as well". With the end result that ads end
    up infesting nearly anything.

    Meanwhile, those of us using mutt to read/reply to our email enjoy as
    'add free' of an experience as we can (I'm overlooking the occasional
    SPAM that isn't caught by SPAM filters).

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Tue Feb 6 11:00:34 2024
    On 2/6/24 09:34, Retrograde wrote:
    From the «please give me more ads» department:
    Feed: OSnews
    Title: Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:56:42 -0500
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/138520/microsoft-sneaks-ads-into-the-new-outlook-for-windows/


    The migration from the classic Mail and Calendar app to the new Outlook app[1]
    is in full swing already. Microsoft announced the deprecation of the classic apps[2] in favor of a new Outlook app in June 2023. It introduced the new Outlook app to Insider builds a month later and announced that it would enforce the migration in early 2024.

    Not all users are migrated at this point. Those who have been migrated already
    or installed the Outlook app directly, may notice several differences between the new Outlook app and the classic Mail app.

    One of the main differences turns an ad-free email experience into one with ads. You may see ads in the inbox in the new Outlook.
    ↫ Martin Brinkmann[3]

    Ads disguised as emails in your inbox. Microsoft will not rest until Windows resembles Times Square. What a trash fire of an operating system.

    Links:
    [1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/17/report-microsoft-starts-mail-and-calendar-app-migration-to-the-inferior-outlook-app/ (link)
    [2]: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/17/say-goodbye-to-windows-mail-and-calendar-app-and-welcome-the-new-outlook-for-windows/ (link)
    [3]: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/02/02/microsoft-sneaks-ads-into-the-new-outlook-for-windows/ (link)

    Doesn't mail already have ads? Sure, some might go to spam but still..
    quite a bit already.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 6 17:20:25 2024
    On 06.02.2024 um 15:34 Uhr Retrograde wrote:

    Ads disguised as emails in your inbox. Microsoft will not rest until
    Windows resembles Times Square. What a trash fire of an operating
    system.

    People seem to like that.
    If not, they would switch to another OS.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to muell456@cartoonies.org

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Wed Feb 7 07:12:53 2024
    candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:

    Doesn't mail already have ads? Sure, some might go to spam but still..
    quite a bit already.

    Much like Usenet. But if a news server started inserting ads in
    with the posts read by its users via NNTP, I'm sure those users
    would disappear _very_ quickly to alternative servers.

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    #_ < |\| |< _# | Note: I won't see posts made from Google Groups |

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Tue Feb 6 21:40:44 2024
    Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:

    Doesn't mail already have ads? Sure, some might go to spam but still..
    quite a bit already.

    Much like Usenet. But if a news server started inserting ads in
    with the posts read by its users via NNTP, I'm sure those users
    would disappear _very_ quickly to alternative servers.

    This change is worse than "server is inserting ads".

    This would be if your tin newsreader binary, after an version upgrade,
    suddenly started inserting ads for you to view while while you were
    browsing a newsgroup.

    The MS change is to have outlook, the client program, start showing ads
    to its users.

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  • From immibis@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Wed Feb 7 00:32:16 2024
    On 6/02/24 22:12, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:

    Doesn't mail already have ads? Sure, some might go to spam but still..
    quite a bit already.

    Much like Usenet. But if a news server started inserting ads in
    with the posts read by its users via NNTP, I'm sure those users
    would disappear _very_ quickly to alternative servers.

    You think far too highly of users.

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