Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.

Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.

  • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶
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    111 year ago

    Gmail does this too. I’m pretty sure my adblocker handles them on my PC but I see them on the mobile app all the time.

    We use o365 for work so I’m seeped in that environment already. I tried using o365 for my personal email for about 3 months and finally gave up and went back to gmail.

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          31 year ago

          Its usually in the separate tab, the “promotion” tab, where they send most subscriptions emails. It’s not good, but it could be miles worse. Yahoo mail for example is a lot worse: you get Ads in the website taking away screen space unless you pay a premium

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            1 year ago

            I don’t have a promotions tab either. Or any tab for that matter.

            Edit: I turned the tabs on, no ads in the promotions tab either. Maybe it’s not a thing in my country.

          • archomrade [he/him]
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            21 year ago

            This is news to me, I don’t see any in my gmail account. I use adblock though. I also do not see any in the gmail app.

            email is an open protocol, there is absolutely no reason why an email client should get away with showing ads.

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              11 year ago

              I see a couple of ad “emails” entries in my promotion side of the inbox, usually in the 3-4 rows, and I also use both adblock + uorigin. Again, not really disrupting, because its usually a section of the inbox I dont go into too much, but I can see it being annoying for others

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      11 year ago

      I have never experienced this with Gmail, though I use ublock as you mentioned. I haven’t seen any through the gmail app on mobile either.

      Email is an open protocol, there’s no reason to continue using an email client (web or otherwise) that displays ads. I highly recommend you use something like thunderbird if this is your experience.

      Ads are pernicious no matter where they appear, but them being associated with any kind of personal communication is fucking nuts, I wish we wouldn’t normalize it.