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xvxvxyesterday at 7:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.

https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ

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


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WarOnPrivacyyesterday at 8:51 PM

The photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app. Can you screenshot a wider view?

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Terrettayesterday at 10:15 PM

I have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?

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