How do I remove ads from Outlook.com

Anonymous
2013-03-08T00:29:13+00:00

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

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Anonymous
2013-03-08T00:36:03+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-06-08T19:00:56+00:00

    You know what, you guys are insane. Previously, none wanted to have account in outlook (All are in love with Gmail) and now they found interesting due to services and you started playing this silly money making add business. This is so ridiculous. Please remove adds from the side panels and think about other options to make money. 

    You can't ask legacy account holders to move on premium ones. Please spare some privilege to them. Hope this message serves the severity.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-31T14:22:50+00:00

    Yes, the ugly banner is an issue.  I got it to go away when I close my bookmarks panel, but the minute I open the bookmarks panel it returns at the bottom of my screen.  I found a really neat solution to the entire issues.  I migrated my outlook account over to Mozilla Thunderbird.  Has the look and feel of outlook/hotmail without all the extraneous garbage.. Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-08-28T17:07:17+00:00

    There is absolutely no reason for a multi-kajillion-dollar business to foist ads on its one free service.  

    I considered Outlook a good alternative to Gmail after I learned that Google (illegally) reads our e-mail to target ads, whereas I'd heard that Microsoft didn't.  "Don't get Scroogled," right?

    I'm far from an anti-government conspiracy nut, but I read Glenn Greenwald's book about the Snowden documents.  He cites how Microsoft cooperates with the NSA so much as to build them a special portal for direct access to their servers.  

    MS hearts NSA, so just beware that everything you write to/from any MS account/product goes straight to watchful eyes.

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