i want to remove the ad sidebar in windows outlook email

Although I am aware of the 'agenda' Mr. Gates has, it does seem beneath even him to use extortion to gain more money holding our mail hostage and demanding a ransom. Or is it the product team responsible? Whichever is responsible for this bad decision, I'd like to ask: Do you plan to keep decreasing the mail viewing area until we pay? Poor Microsoft, the corporation has so little money they need to charge us to see our mail.. is that what you want us to believe? Last I heard, email was considered the same as postal mail and it is illegal to prevent someone from viewing their mail, which is what you're doing by blocking half of the screen.

use extension webmail ad blocker (wab) in chrome and the sidebar is gone.

pleeeeease at least make it so that we can close the advertising bar or make it smaller - it makes it impossible to search for something in the 'subject' line because u cant see it  }:< !!

thank u!!

This is better than my solution above. This is perfect and I did it in less than 20 secs. Thank you. Problem solved!

If you use either Chrome or Firefox as your browser, then do a search on "webmail ad blocker". That ad-on is free and there are versions for Chrome and Firefox. Download and install either or both versions. The ads in outlook will no longer be displayed.