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I 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
by xvxvx 7mo ago
I 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.