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Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the alternative is Google who is already worse. Linux is needed but until mass consumers reject ads it will never go mainstream.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but until mass consumers reject ads it will never go mainstream

Cory Doctorow said that half of all Internet users use adblockers (dunno where he got that statistic but I tend to trust that man)

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

We're all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit.

lol