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xvxvx 17 hours 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.
Update: had to refresh a few times but it came back and here's where the 'ad' leads to: https://imgur.com/a/MSDzFhs
WarOnPrivacy 16 hours ago [-]
The photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app. Can you screenshot a wider view?
ivanmontillam 16 hours ago [-]
On 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 16 hours ago [-]
I updated the original post.
Terretta 15 hours ago [-]
I have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?
greyadept 15 hours ago [-]
It 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__ 13 hours ago [-]
That is not tacky design.
I would call this malicious in and of itself. That is insane.
estimator7292 15 hours ago [-]
Looks like the latter
Habgdnv 2 hours ago [-]
Linux 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.
_nickwhite 10 hours ago [-]
This 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://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ
Edit: better screencap 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
I had to look thrice to find it.
It’s a pretty tacky design, in my opinion, even if it was only serving “legitimate” ads.
I would call this malicious in and of itself. That is insane.
Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.
https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt...