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Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows (www.ghacks.net)
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[โ€“] Quicky@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This was always the case in the web version of Outlook, and the mobile client. If you subscribe to 365, ads are removed.

I noticed this last year when I moved away from 365 and started getting ads on the Outlook mobile client. I ended up binning it off and just used the default Mail app on iOS, which is a shame because the Outlook app on phones is actually superb. Not good enough to put up with ads though.

[โ€“] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

In app ads are removed, but what about the tracking and then showing you ads on other sites and services is that also removed when you pay? I can say that uBlock still killed hundreds of trackers on my paid outlook premium account.