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The promo video heralds it as email without 'creepy ads', but I signed up and without doing anything it displays 5 ads from restaurants in my town.
by stove 14y ago
The promo video heralds it as email without 'creepy ads', but I signed up and without doing anything it displays 5 ads from restaurants in my town.
- saurik 14y agoIt can pull that off without reading your mail, which has been Microsoft's primary marketing complaint re Gmail.
- nickpresta 14y agoI understand the distinction, but if you're going to target me with ads solely based on where my IP says I'm from, you might as well just scan my mail and give me relevant ads.
- laconian 14y agoIt's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.
- alexvay 14y agoIt's a pwn at GMail, by Microsoft. :)
- mc32 14y agoIn my old account accessed via outlook.com, I see no ads. In a new account I just created I see ads from Restaurant.com. Not sure what gives.