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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...
I agree. As a result of this "feature" links never seem to load for me. Just disable the feature. Unfortunately I still cannot load links from emails already received.
- You were able to disable it...? how?
- OMG, found it!! I'll finally be able to click links again! Ironically, here's a LINK to it: https://outlook.live.com/mail/options/premium/security
You can get there by:
1. Click the stupid diamond thing "premium" on the top, it will open settings in the premium section.
2. Click on the stupid Security subsection
3. Click o the stupid switch under "Advanced" sub-sub-section where there is a very long, evasive text - it's a bunch of crap how they keep you safe, as opposed to Microsoft reading all links that come through your email.
To be honest, I obviously don't really care that the Microsoft robots are collecting my information, otherwise I'd use a proper paid email system... the problem is that they are actually making me go through a portal to get to links and it's making my analysis of phishy links very difficult, I can't just check that the domain is what it should be in a split-second like I could before, not to mention it doesn't work through some proxies and adds a significant delay.
They could at least have the decency to inject a right-click menu with options like "view/copy insecure URL" and "open without protection" or some crap.I got frustrated with OFFICE 365 and strange email behavior, but when they denied me access to my wife's account I went to Open Office and G Mail. (My wife will not touch the computer and uses a flip phone.) I found out very quickly that MICROSOFT was scooping ALL mail to the M$ Cloud, Including my *.odf and other Open Office files. They are a MONSTER! Everybody knows everything about us. DISGUSTING. My Excel keeps putting notice tags about my formatting that hide a cell I want to use. DARN IT, I know what I want to do. Just leave me alone. Our retiree group calls MICROSOFT "M$" because Microsoft plays dirty to make up buy new. WIN 7 was easy to use. WIN 10 is a bunch of mish-mosh software and it is not at all intuitive. No real engineers developed WIN 10.
And another thing. Auto Save is a disaster. If you make a big mistake just before the M$ Goons decide to save, you are messed up bad. I keep it off when they give me a choice.
