So I take it Microsoft is also going to disable their spam filters?
Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
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Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
#12Will be pretty interesting. Feels like this is going to massively blow up in their face. Never been a fan of attack adds especially if you can improve your own product instead of making the other one look bad. Just a bad mindset to try to blame the other guy.
The irony of Microsoft using privacy/security to attack another company is not lost on me.
Guess what, those mails can be read if your OS gets exlpoited over and over and there's a backdoor on most joe shmoe home computers anyways :P
That being said the campaign obviously has a point.
Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
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Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
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Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
#15This is surprising -- I know! -- but competing companies sometimes advertise against each other. Microsoft have been doing this for quite a while (see Gmail man [1]) and they seem to think that the privacy aspect is enough of a weakness in the Google armor that it's an effective campaign. So far I don't think Microsoft have had as many problems on the privacy front as Google or Facebook so this is probably not a rash…
I don't think it is that unsurprising either, nor do I have a problem with this kind of advertising. My only gripe would be that I believe you can opt-out of targeted gmail ads now so it would appear this is either out of date or inaccurate.
Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
#16Why should Google be exempt from criticism? I think its good that a big company like Microsoft is making this kind of privacy an issue.
What issue, though? That your email is scanned by an algorithm to determine relevancy for ads? Guess what, your email is scanned by an algorithm on outlook.com too, to determine whether it's spam. It's exactly the same thing.
Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
#17So when DDG does it, it's awesome and ballsy. But when Microsoft does it, it's pathetic and scammy?
Because we like Google, of course, and hate Microsoft, of course.
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#18I don't get why context relevant ads are bad. If I am going to see ads, I would rather they be ads that might be useful.
As long as they aren't releasing my mail for all to see, and it's an automated thing... so what.
Re: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
#19Although this particular campaign is new, this has been going on for a while:
http://www.webpronews.com/is-bing-right-about-people-getting...