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Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads by dillondoyle on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:15PM (#30393018)
that's so interesting. and an odd ruling?! I've boughten yahoo email ads. and tried gmails promoted version. it's a really interesting idea and seems better than outright spam

plus email inboxes have a huge amount of valuable data it could be one of the most relevant ad experiences if they truly leveraged that data. I buy ads and don't have a problem with a lot of the industry, i'm minority on that here. To me highly relevant ads are way better than mortgage loan quicken shit ads and virus crap I see otherwise.

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Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads by GekkePrutser on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:38AM (#30395720)
I think part of the difference here is that you see ads at all. Most of us who hate tracking block ads completely so it's not a choice between relevant ads or irrelevant ones. Either way we don't see them so limiting tracking has no downsides.

But I would especially hate ads showing up in my mailbox. I pay for O365 business so they don't, but if they did I would drop the service immediately. Spam is a big problem and artificially adding ads on top of all that makes it even bigger.

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