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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...
To add insult to injury, my Office Outlook Inbox still has unread items that I can't get to, as they were received before I disabled this diabolical 'tool'. I was wondering for a few weeks (i) why my mail was and web pages were so slow to open (I had noticed the sly pre-load reference to the safelinks URL, but had disregarded it until my mail became unusable); and (ii) when I was unable to access links in perfectly legimate emails, even after I had forwarded those emails to another (non-MS) email address so that I could follow the links and download important information.
Get this straight Microsoft, I have plenty of paid anti-phishing and virus protection software that has worked fine for over a decade. Your intrusion in this matter is another example of the totally irresponsible engineering and version release policies and procedures that are driving people away from Microsoft - except those of us held to use your products because of constraints such a corporate standards.
I don't believe it's unreasonable of me to ask, no demand, that you remove this albatross immediately and give back my access to my now inaccessible email links.
Get this straight Microsoft, I have plenty of paid anti-phishing and virus protection software that has worked fine for over a decade. Your intrusion in this matter is another example of the totally irresponsible engineering and version release policies and procedures that are driving people away from Microsoft - except those of us held to use your products because of constraints such a corporate standards.
I don't believe it's unreasonable of me to ask, no demand, that you remove this albatross immediately and give back my access to my now inaccessible email links.