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Post by Pete on Oct 7, 2017 8:15:26 GMT
A new trend in Outlook is MSN injecting ads into ones inbox. Which IMO is likely pointless. How often have we been told not to open messages that aren't from our known & usual contacts? So I don't see anyone looking at them. They're not the banner ads you might expect but rather appear as a regular message within your inbox. I don't open them. What I do instead is mouse-over the message's subject line & click-on the trash can icon. Which of course deletes them. My ad-blocker doesn't work to block those. They're touted as "a new type of ad you can share." Yeah, uh-huh, like I'm going to forward ads to my contacts. Yesterday I saw a link to the right side of my inbox titled How To Get Rid of Ads. It wasn't a promo for Outlook's pay-service but instead was info on the source of the ads themselves & how one can opt-out of them. I didn't see it just now when I took the screen-shot below but the next time I do I'll share the MSN link.  |
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Post by Sandy on Oct 7, 2017 17:47:29 GMT
Pete, I don't get those "ads you can share" in my inbox. I would think they would go straight to your junk or spam box, but I don't get those either. I have other hinky issues with Outlook, but they don't include ads or spam.
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Post by Pete on Oct 7, 2017 19:15:32 GMT
Sandy, hmm, that's peculiar. Why my mail & not yours?
No matter though I'm on the trail of blocking those ads. My AdBlock Plus doesn't do it but I'm learning about the Firefox add-on GreaseMonkey, which is used to reconfigure sites wih Javascript scripts that one can install into GM. One of the scripts that's available is a Remove Ads From Outlook script.
Gotta do some more learning on those before I fool around with them.
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Post by david on Oct 7, 2017 20:19:39 GMT
I don't think I get those ads either. If I do it maybe in junk mail and I don't look at junk mail. I just mark all read and delete it.
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Post by nquale on Oct 7, 2017 23:50:24 GMT
I don't use my outlook account but I do check into it monthly to delete all of the spam in my spam folder, anyway maybe because I never get emails there other then from Outlook telling me about new changes, I also don't get those ad emails.
Can't you put a check mark in front of them and send them to your spam folder.
As I've told a few of my friends with spam in their inbox, you need to teach your email what you consider is spam by always marking spam in the inbox as spam. After a few months Outlook, gmail,yahoo all learn to treat those kinds of emails as spam and they send it directly to your spam box.
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Post by Pete on Oct 8, 2017 23:14:48 GMT
Nancy, thanks for the tip. I'll have to implement to see what happens. But of course since I've mentioned the ads they haven't showed up since.
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Post by Pete on Oct 9, 2017 23:31:04 GMT
Well, there's nothing more one can do with the ads except: Forward & Remove. One can't mark them as spam. There's a link included where one can opt-out of them though. You can check it out below: Ad Opt-OutI'll have to study that & see if I can find a method that works for me. |
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Post by Pete on Oct 14, 2017 23:34:34 GMT
Well, I was wrong. As they appear in ones inbox there's few things you can do with 'em. But, I've discovered that if I choose Move To Inbox I then have the usual options one has with any message. Including Mark As Junk. So that's what I've been doing the past few days.
I can't conclude yet if that'll stop repeat ads of the same thing. Too soon to say.
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Post by Pete on Nov 14, 2017 14:51:39 GMT
Well, in regard to my post above this one: so far ads I've marked as junk & are then moved to that folder have not shown up again. I still get new ads but when I've checked my junk folder for a match I haven't seen any. So it appears most likely that once an ad is marked as junk further ads from that same source are blocked. The only mail this method doesn't work with is the message from MSN prompting me to update my Outlook mail. I've found no way to block that. Oh, and one evening I was searching for an e-mail contact for Microsoft. My intent, since one can forward their ads, was to do so with the ads they keep sending me. Figured they'd like getting 'em as much as I do. But, no e-mail addy was found. Yet...  |
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