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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...
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.
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.
Hello,
I just got set up with Office 365. I work in content development and news and we email each other links all day long. Unfortunately all of the URLs we are sending each other are totally screwed up and have safelinks jibberish added to them.
I have had Office 365 for an hour and the entire team is at a standstill. We're using slack for the moment but need email. Is there really no way to turn this off? This is so frustrating. I will have to leave Office 365 because this is totally unusable.
