#Microsoft is updating their terms of service again. They are now going to start blocking contents of your email based on what you say or upload.
The terms take effect August 15, 2022.
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@james Well, e-mail providers have generally tried to stop spam, viruses and illegal activity since the 90s. What worries me is they'll expand the definition of "Services" to include the OS and basically everything comes under surveillance
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Email providers have been rejecting incoming and outgoing email based on content for decades. If they didn't then email as a concept would be unusable.
*laughs in Tutanota*
Seriously people switch to Tutanota or Protonmail or some other privacy respecting option.
@PublicLewdness @james Does someone still believe that #ProtonMail is a #privacy respecting service and that #Switzerland is a safe #jurisdiction?
* https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/ ( (#TechCrunch)
* https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/07/protonmail-criticised-for-passing-arrested-french-climate-activist-s-ip-address-to-police (#Euronews)
* https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/ (#Wired)
#Proton #Swiss #French #France #activist #IP #IPaddress #Tor #anonymous #anonymity
@james I'm totally on board to bash on Microsoft, but this looks like every AUP I've ever agreed to with a hosting company
Do they mean having your OS instance block/[blocked from] network traffic in general or merely their incredibly insecure email/online account system?
@james Oh no, I wouldn't DARE think of distributing Bing Maps.
@james never use msft services
@FabreNation Weird stuff happens with Microsoft accounts.
One time someone said to me about how his account has been banned because he was transferring files from some device to a cloud and it violated the ToS somehow. He tried to replicate it but it didn't get terminated.
He told me he could only play games on his Xbox because he had it set as his Home Console.
@AppleOnTech @james To self host would be a great idea. But there is a problem: where to find a safe location?
@gamliel @james I consider a VPS fairly safe. At least much safer than outlook or gmail. My mail server is on Linode. I used https://mailinabox.email
@AppleOnTech @james It depends on up to three jurisdictions:
* where is your server located,
* where is the official address of the company,
* where are yourself.
If these three are one jurisdiction, it depends on one jurisdiction.
Never entrust a 3rd party with your email.
@james Ahhh good old microsoft, and yet the normalfag golems will not stop using it until is too late.
@james I ordered something from infowarsstore.com the first week I had my new domain on ms 365 then they blacklisted me for spam. Went and took a screen shot of the outbound and there was nothing in the sent folder server side. Then got a electronic letter telling me the domain was suspended due to spam and that "you can not appeal". Been using mail gun and monster megs ever since.
@james Well, technically, it’s *their email*… you just get to write it.
@james Microsoft going the way of so many individual tech workers & deciding they no longer want to run their own email servers
@james okay and what if I'm a malware researcher and my company uses microsoft and my job includes sending malware in an email? fucking M$...
@james Wait a minute. Isn't a Microsoft account necessary to use their latest operating system? So they can lock you out of your Computer for banalities! Easily.
Nice.
@james Thanks for pointing this out! I totally missed it 🤦🏼♀️
Translation of @SebastianGallehr:
Do I understand this in the right manner? Microsoft Windows now apparently reserves the right to censor content produced on Windows machines?
First of all, that's really bad! And secondly, I am happy to work on #ubuntu #linux since 2007.
@selea
@james To which Microsoft products are these terms related?
@WhyNot Mainly Outlook, Skype and OneDrive.
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Should've highlighted blocking the MS account too.
Next step is smart app control github lock-in.