Outlook got updated on my iPhone last night and now they want me to agree to having my data shared with 807 partners.
Important note: I don’t use outlook as my primary email provider. I use Proton with a custom domain but I keep outlook for some old emails.
Do you pay for email? If so this is wrong. If not, it’s how you pay for email.
Fair enough, they sell access to your eyeballs to their real customers, the advertisers.
But, what isn’t fair is that it’s 807 “partners”. This isn’t 807 different brands who might want to advertise to you, it’s far more than that. This is 807 different “partners” among whom are Google, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon, Alibaba, etc. who then each go on to sell access to their hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
You can’t expect to have a meaningful privacy policy when you’re sharing that data with 807 different entities.
I pay for it - family plan. The screen after this is about where I want my ads shown in the app…a paying customer shouldn’t be seeing ads.
Clearly you don’t pay ms enough so the poor megacorp have to sell your data to their 807 partners to scrape by.