Microsoft Outlook has begun serving me ads that look like emails
files.catbox.moe
files.catbox.moe
What angers me more than ads is that hotmail/outlook addresses are recycled. I still receive emails for the old owner of my email address, including Facebook OTPs. I could log in and steal his Meta account if I wanted. It’s downright dangerous, can’t believe they still allow it.
Its 2023, we know better, move on to a service that respect your privacy.
Because they don't pay for services. Microsoft and Google both provide a paid version that is ad-free. Regardless of the version, neither use your emails for ad-serving or "spying".
There are plenty of things we should be critical about w.r.t Microsoft and Google, but this ain't it.
You are the product even if you pay, because they make more money that way.
That's the whole point of any business.
I thought it was known that Gmail does. I can immediately see articles as recent as 2018 [1]; did something change since then?
[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7312296/google-read-gmail-emai...
> did something change since then?
GDPR, LGDP and equivalent laws plus the tangibility of emails (instead of the relatively-nebulous web history which Google could simply blame on "we only know what website we're serving from, we don't track you"). I don't know if US residents still get targeted ads using mail data though.
[1] [1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en#:~:text=Th....
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html