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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is ruining Outlook.com
About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= It destroys the URL visibil...
Besides obscuring the url, these extra long links get broken on my Android device, so when I click on the link I get a page error. It forces me to use my laptop instead of my mobile.
But wait! there is another solution.
I am switching back to making Gmail my primary email account.
Ah yes, sanity has been restored. Once again I can see the link, I can click on it, and it opens on my phone without waiting forever, and getting a broken page link.
Microsoft, give me the power to decide please. I want to choose what happens to my links.
Brian Fumo wrote:
About a week ago, I noticed that all URLs were suddenly extremely long/obscure, and beginning with something like: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
It destroys the URL visibility experience.
I quickly realized that this was an Office 365 (E5) feature called ATP, but I'm not talking about Office 365 here but rather the consumer Outlook.com site.
I need to find out if we're going to be able to disable this, and when.
It's unbelievable that MS just foisted it on us, since it's not even in the vast majority of Office 365 plans! I realize that some people have been seeing it longer than one week.