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Technology things you find annoying!

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First one is that I use the free Outlook for my e-mail.

It has started to send me e-mails which are ads to upgrade my outlook which of course they want me to pay for that privilege.

I have no intention of upgrading but these will not go away. You can delete them but the come right back!

Very annoying!

I might even go back to using either my Gmail or Telus e-mail to get rid of them. lol
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Bsuds wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 7:56 am First one is that I use the free Outlook for my e-mail.

It has started to send me e-mails which are ads to upgrade my outlook which of course they want me to pay for that privilege.

I have no intention of upgrading but these will not go away. You can delete them but the come right back!

Very annoying!

I might even go back to using either my Gmail or Telus e-mail to get rid of them. lol
Telus email apparently is going through gmail now.
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GordonH wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 9:03 am
Telus email apparently is going through gmail now.
I am well aware of that, but it is still a different e-mail addy and it's not outlook.
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Bsuds wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 9:13 am
GordonH wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 9:03 am
Telus email apparently is going through gmail now.
I am well aware of that, but it is still a different e-mail addy and it's not outlook.
I’ve been using my current email service for 20+ years and haven’t had 1 issue.
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GordonH, read what my post said?

Outlook has just started sending e-mail ads to everyone using the free outlook to upgrade to a paid version,

So if you are not using Microsoft Outlook you won't get/see these ads.

I can delete the ad but it comes right back and will not go away! That's the annoying part. :-X
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A couple of things if you haven't already done them.

- Scroll to the bottom of the email and see if there's a link to click on to 'unsubscribe', I do this all the time with pretty good results

- If available, label the email as Spam so it goes straight to the Spam box.

That's all I got.
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Bsuds wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 10:35 am GordonH, read what my post said?

Outlook has just started sending e-mail ads to everyone using the free outlook to upgrade to a paid version,

So if you are not using Microsoft Outlook you won't get/see these ads.

I can delete the ad but it comes right back and will not go away! That's the annoying part. :-X
Sounds like Microsoft has pick up a google thing and taken 1 step further. Pay or put up with BS ads.
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YzzzR1 wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 10:42 am A couple of things if you haven't already done them.

- Scroll to the bottom of the email and see if there's a link to click on to 'unsubscribe', I do this all the time with pretty good results

- If available, label the email as Spam so it goes straight to the Spam box.

That's all I got.
You can't label it as spam as it's not technically an e-mail. When you open it you go directly to their website trying to sell office 365.

They are doing their utmost to *bleep* people off.
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Bsuds wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 10:51 am You can't label it as spam as it's not technically an e-mail. When you open it you go directly to their website trying to sell office 365.

They are doing their utmost to *bleep* people off.
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YzzzR1 wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 11:03 am
Those bass turds...
Exactly and if they sent me an ad maybe once a month I would be OK with that.

But not the way they are doing it now.
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Bsuds wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 11:07 am
YzzzR1 wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 11:03 am
Those bass turds...
Exactly and if they sent me an ad maybe once a month I would be OK with that.

But not the way they are doing it now.
I've seen this lifetime offer in a few places the last couple of weeks.

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Urban Cowboy wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 2:04 pm
I've seen this lifetime offer in a few places the last couple of weeks.

https://www.pcmag.com/deals/grab-a-life ... 021-for-30
I actually have access to MS 365 through a non profit I am on the board of so don't really want to pay for something I already have. I will have to look at it and see if I can join the 2 accounts into one so the ads go away.

I am quite happy with Libreoffice and have been using it for many years so most of my files are with that.

I started using Outlook when Windows 10 insisted on an MS account to install it but the ad is starting to bug me.

I know, first World problems. :D
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Something to think about, is your free "Outlook" email program actually from Microsoft. There are many 3rd party websites that will offer free Microsoft programs or that cost a lot less money than Microsoft. These are not supported by Microsoft. I didn't think Microsoft gave anything for free!
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pogo1 wrote: Dec 12th, 2022, 3:33 pm Something to think about, is your free "Outlook" email program actually from Microsoft. There are many 3rd party websites that will offer free Microsoft programs or that cost a lot less money than Microsoft. These are not supported by Microsoft. I didn't think Microsoft gave anything for free!
It's definitely MS outlook which is why I'm getting the stupid ads everyday.
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Yes, you said it was Microsoft Outlook, but did you get it (download or ?) from Microsoft or another company off the Internet.

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