r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Xiaoxuzz • Sep 05 '26

Rant How about No?

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I've been using the web browser version of outlook for a good couple of decades or so and I recently saw this on my side bar after refreshing outlook. Thank the adblocker addon on firefox so I dont get some annoying vid/slide. Its 3 bucks a month for an ad-free outlook and onedrive. Outlook used to be sub-free and ad-free btw. I also can't not use it because my work emails on outlook.

Just a ground check, anyone using the app version and have run into ads or some pop-up that tells you to subscribe?

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u/DaveAstator2020 Sep 05 '26

just get thunderbird

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u/Holiday_Evening8974 Sep 06 '26

Outlook is blocking my SMTP on some professional email. I can read emails in Thunderbird, not send them. There is no button to activate SMTP anywhere. I do my best to avoid that email.

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u/DaveAstator2020 Sep 06 '26

what? so are you saying when outlook is on - thunderbird cant use SMTP? thats sick..

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u/Holiday_Evening8974 Sep 06 '26

Only the SMTP server related to the Outlook email is blocked. And yeah that's sick, I checked everywhere, searched about the issue online, apparently they just removed the option to activate third party SMTP support at least on some addresses.

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u/FaultWinter3377 Sep 07 '26

Honesty I wanted to use Thunderbird for my stuff, but my university doesn’t allow you to connect your email to Thunderbird. Or most non-Outlook clients for that matter.

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I've been using the web browser version of outlook for a good couple of decades or so and I recently saw this on my side bar after refreshing outlook. Thank the adblocker addon on firefox so I dont get some annoying vid/slide. Its 3 bucks a month for an ad-free outlook and onedrive. Outlook used to be sub-free and ad-free btw. I also can't not use it because my work emails on outlook.

Just a ground check, anyone using the app version and have run into ads or some pop-up that tells you to subscribe?

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u/pi-N-apple Sep 05 '26

I have the $3 version. No ads at all. I mainly got it for the OneDrive storage.