40 points by xvxvx 3 hours ago | 10 comments
- 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.
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
- The photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app. Can you screenshot a wider view?
- 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.
- I updated the original post.
- I have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?
- 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.
- Looks like the latter
- Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?
