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Comment by RyanZAG | Hacker News Reader

This is definitely by Microsoft. The site uses the following nameservers, which are under Microsoft control and cannot be forged.

    ns3.msft.net

    ns4.msft.net

    ns1.msft.net

    ns2.msft.net

    ns5.msft.net

Pathetic stuff.

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But google DO go through every message to sell ads. How is this pathetic? Some people don't like the fact that their emails are used in that way, so focusing on that is just marketing.

No different to google running ads for chrome saying "it's faster"... it IS, and some people care about that.

Saying that chrome is "faster" is one thing.

Saying that IE is "slower" is another.

Likewise Microsoft could have made a ad that showed how they protect your privacy, instead of pointing how their biggest competitor don't.

I feel like MS is trying to mislead people into believing that GMail employees go through your mail (they superpose inquisitive human eyes over the gmail video for instance).

It's quite a different issue if it's just a computer program parsing your data. After all, SMTP programs go through your your email too.

I'm all for people caring more about their privacy and be more educated about giving their personal infos online, but the solution to that is PGP, not Outlook.

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