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I NEVER WANTED TO CHANGE FROM HOTMAIL BUT NOE THAT IT WAS FORCED UPON ME HOW DO I REMOVE THE VERY ANNOYING ADS TO THE RIGHT OF MY EMAILS AND OBSCURE MY VIEW OF THE WHOLE EMAIL
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook.com
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The ads are how Microsoft makes the money to keep Outlook free.
You can upgrade to Outlook Plus (paid) to be rid of them permanently.
If you have PLUS and ads please contact the Billing Department.
If you are using Firefox you can use either popup blocker or No-script but neither will reclaim the space the ads take up.
folks at Microsoft: You have shot yourselves in the foot. Please allow email users to opt out of tracking ads on Outlook.com, or lose a bunch of us. The ads telling me what you think I like are scary. IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT OR WHERE I WANT TO BUY OR WHEN. And that includes the cloud.
I have now been forced to look at a McDonald's ad for McGrill burger for nearly 2 months!
You can easily remove ads in Outlook ....
If you use Firefox, try this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webmail-ad-blocker/
If you use Chrome, the same add-on is available here:
The ads are how Microsoft makes the money to keep Outlook free.
You can upgrade to Outlook Plus (paid) to be rid of them permanently.
If you have PLUS and ads please contact the Billing Department.
If you are using Firefox you can use either popup blocker or No-script but neither will reclaim the space the ads take up.
HOTMAIL ALLOWED ME TO CLOSE THE ABUSIVE ADS SO I COULD AT LEAST READ THE EMAIL!!!!!!!
Hello TOLKIEN1,
Thank you for bringing this issue to us.
I understand that you want to remove the ads from your Outlook.com interface, and you were able to remove the ads from your Hotmail interface.
Please be informed that even if you can remove the ads from your Hotmail interface, it will still show the advertisements after you log in again to your Hotmail account. In this case, Outlook.com is designed as it is, and we can't do an adjustment on our end to remove the ads, unless you are an Ad-free Outlook.com subscriber.
If you still have questions, please feel free to post back.
Note: I edit the subject to How do I remove ads from Outlook.com for our customer's reference.
Regards.