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If you ignore all the MS corruption & anti-consumer actions by MS & fixate just on privacy, MS was widely thought to not be in the #surveillanceAdvertising biz (certainly not to the Google/FB extreme). People assumed MS did not snoop in their email. But this year MS bought a surveillance ad spin-off (#XANDR?) from AT&T, so now there can be no mistake: MS is firmly in that business.
#SurveillanceAdvertising #Xandr
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The widespread opinion is that MS does not depend on ad revenue for survival. Ad revenue is the *life-blood* of Google and FB & they would collapse w/out surveillance advertising. Whereas s/w sales is the life-blood of MS who doesn’t even need ad money to stay afloat. Historically if you start talking about gloves in your MS email, you wouldn’t start seeing ads for gloves.
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Jay Williams

I've experienced something similar myself, while trying to figure out why one-time login links were expiring for random outlook.com email addresses. Digging into the server logs I saw a Microsoft IP address send a HEAD request of the login link included in the email, which was invalidating the one-time link.

I solved it by having my app ignore HEAD login requests and only process GET requests, as my robots.txt file disallows indexing.

Still really rubbed me the wrong way. I figured it was some kind of anti-phishing gimmick, but the fact that they're just using it to populate their spider is an egregious violation of user trust.

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Aral Balkan

Yes and you can be stabbed to death if you're not wearing body armour. And yet we have laws against stabbing people and we treat those who stab others as criminals and understand that the person getting stabbed is the victim here so we don't go around blaming them for not taking steps to ensure their flesh is harder to stab. About time we stopped victim blaming in tech too. The blame here lies with one entity alone: the trillion-dollar faceless corporation we call Microsoft.
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Mr. Teatime

I think Microsoft should be either forced by law or at made to feel very embarrassed if they don't *provide* the proverbial body armor to protect their proverbial potential stabbing victims.

This sort of news needs to be something that corporations' PR people live in fear of and do everything to prevent. But putting it into law requirws more people to actually care, which seems to be a hard problem...
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Tuxicoman

Microsoft outlook has also a link protection feature that "scan" links in order to prevent the user to go to a malicious website.

That is the ad.

When the user clicks on the link in outlook email, microsoft is notified and will also make a visit to the link. However this visit will happen a few seconds after the user reaches the link endpoint so he could already be trapped....
This is done to avoid a long delay on link clicks I guess but it defeats the security argument.

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