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Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's
- xvxvx 7mo agoI get plenty of antivirus 'your payment has failed, click to update' attempts in my spam folder, but to see a paid ad hosted on the free version of Outlook for Windows 11 is very troubling. I have Gmail connected to the Outlook app and this is where the ad showed. https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ Edit: better screencap https://imgur.com/a/Qra5Ohp https://imgur.com/a/Qra5Ohp Update: had to refresh a few times but it came back and here's where the 'ad' leads to: https://imgur.com/a/MSDzFhs https://imgur.com/a/MSDzFhs
- Terretta 7mo agoI have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?
- greyadept 7mo agoIt looks like a normal email but has the word “Ad” in small letters. When you click it, it opens a link, rather than rendering email content in another pane. It’s a pretty tacky design, in my opinion, even if it was only serving “legitimate” ads.
- tharkun__ 7mo agoThat is not tacky design. I would call this malicious in and of itself. That is insane.
- estimator7292 7mo agoLooks like the latter
- drw85 7mo agoIt's not. This is how the free version of Outlook that comes with Windows displays ads.
- WarOnPrivacy 7mo agoThe photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app. Can you screenshot a wider view?
- ivanmontillam 7mo agoOn the right top side of the image you can see a little rounded square that says "Ad" I had to look thrice to find it.
- xvxvx 7mo agoI updated the original post.
- jbrooksuk 7mo agoImgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?
- xvxvx 7mo agoTry this: https://pasteboard.co/JYr36KObMIIu.png https://pasteboard.co/JYr36KObMIIu.png
- shellwizard 7mo agoThat returns a 503 error
- SockThief 7mo agohttps://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/O9bjjQQ https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/O9bjjQQ https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/Qra5Ohp https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/Qra5Ohp https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/MSDzFhs https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/MSDzFhs
- 948382828528 7mo agoHave you tried getting rid of the regime?
- _nickwhite 7mo agoThis is bad, but not as bad as the "Unlock Premium" ad every single corporate/enterprise Teams user got (locked in the title bar on Windows and macOS). Hiding the ad required an admin to turn off "self-service", a hard to find setting buried in the "Org Settings" within Microsoft 365 admin center. I can't even blame this on AI/Microslop. https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt/ https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt...
- drw85 7mo agoI'd argue that this is much worse in a different way. Imagine the website the ad points to is malicious and manages to install or exploit something. Outlook happily displays and opens this without confirmation, as long as you pay them for it.
- Habgdnv 7mo agoLinux users are still behind on this innovation. Big corporations with money can move much faster. The closest I got on Fedora was a "donate to the author" button in a game launcher I installed last week. I saw it once. That pretty much exhausts my "modern platform" experience for the past few months. Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.
- methuselah_in 7mo agoInstall adguard for God sake