I get plenty of antivirus 'your payment has failed, click to update' attempts in my spam folder, but to see a paid ad hosted on the free version of Outlook for Windows 11 is very troubling. I have Gmail connected to the Outlook app and this is where the ad showed.

https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ

Edit: better screencap https://imgur.com/a/Qra5Ohp

Update: had to refresh a few times but it came back and here's where the 'ad' leads to: https://imgur.com/a/MSDzFhs

This is bad, but not as bad as the "Unlock Premium" ad every single corporate/enterprise Teams user got (locked in the title bar on Windows and macOS). Hiding the ad required an admin to turn off "self-service", a hard to find setting buried in the "Org Settings" within Microsoft 365 admin center. I can't even blame this on AI/Microslop.

https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt...

Linux users are still behind on this innovation. Big corporations with money can move much faster. The closest I got on Fedora was a "donate to the author" button in a game launcher I installed last week. I saw it once. That pretty much exhausts my "modern platform" experience for the past few months.

Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.

Install adguard for God sake

Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?