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I tried the new outlook for about 30 seconds. They injected ads into my mail.
Instantly uninstalled it.
I hope you changed your email account passwords after. What many people don’t realise is that when you fill out the “configure your email account” form, the details aren’t kept local to your PC. You are giving Microsoft the login details to your email account. This is a major departure from how Outlook and Windows Mail used to work.
So you’ve uninstalled the app, but how can you ensure they aren’t still polling your emails?
I mean, if it's an Outlook email and not from another provider using Outlook as a frontend, it's part of Microsoft's ecosystem anyways. Unless your whole inbox is encrypted (and it's probably not if it's not being advertised as such lol), it's on Microsoft's servers and they have control over it anyways.
That said, definitely change the password if you just used Outlook as your email client at some point!
Well that’s the thing. The new Outlook app is now the default email program on Windows. So you’ll have people setting up their Fastmail, Gmail, GMX and countless other mailboxes on it, just like they always have.
Except this time your password is being given to Microsoft, not just the email app on your computer.
That makes sense. I always just used my email from the browser unless there's something specific I need from an email client or the setup is employer-provided/mandated, but I guess a lot of people just go with whatever is put in front of their face first.
I use the old outlook, so M$ still has my info.
the new version of thunderbird is amaaaazzzzing
Really. It’s been a decade at least since I last tried it. It was primitive and error prone at the time.
the old versions were not very good, but 'supernova' came out a few months ago and everything improved. Its really good
I Sincerely hope you logged back in to outlook.com after to reject all permissions and tear out your data/accounts
Nope. But I think I’ll do that now. Thanks for the prompt.
Gmail does the same, at least for me on mobile when I look at my promotions Inbox
You can turn this multiple inbox feature off. Then you will not have that problem anymore. I did that and now have an ad free Gmail app
Thanks for the tip!
It was so broken when I tested it that if you dragged a folder two levels deep it would disappear. Had to roll back to get that folder out.