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by _nickwhite 106 days ago
This is bad, but not as bad as the "Unlock Premium" ad every single corporate/enterprise Teams user got (locked in the title bar on Windows and macOS). Hiding the ad required an admin to turn off "self-service", a hard to find setting buried in the "Org Settings" within Microsoft 365 admin center. I can't even blame this on AI/Microslop.

https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt...

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I'd argue that this is much worse in a different way.

Imagine the website the ad points to is malicious and manages to install or exploit something.

Outlook happily displays and opens this without confirmation, as long as you pay them for it.