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Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users
medeii writes "East Side Journal reports that without telling anyone, Microsoft has suddenly changed the privacy preferences for all Hotmail users. They're now sharing your name and other personal information with third parties, even if you said you didn't want that when you signed up. (If you're a user, login, go to Options > Personal Profile, and un-check the boxes at the bottom of that page.)" The same reporter has written a follow-up article today.
ok maybe they would, but you'd probably only getty pretty spam from them.
yes i run a goth/punk/emo porn site.
I'd be a whole lot richer if my employer didn't share my salary data with the IRS!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Phew...looks to me like yet another Microsoft-Slashdot contract ("conspiracy") to bring loads of traffic to Hotmail site...
.NET Passport and required for registration at many Web sites, includes:
c essibility
P.S. The options with "Share my other registration information" has this text:
"This information, which is stored in your Microsoft®
Birth Date
Country/Region
State/Territory
Gender
Ac
Time Zone
Occupation"
This means that whatever fake information I put in Hotmail would be used for all other sites? No Way!
ooops sorry...that was the " MSN® Hotmail® Tip of the Month" in one particular email (from msn)
full text:
MSN® Hotmail® Tip of the Month
Be aggressive against spam
At Hotmail, we know spam is a chronic problem, and we are doing everything we can to help you keep spam out of your Inbox. That's why we developed the Junk Mail Filter. But there are other things you can do to decrease the amount of spam you receive.
Never respond to junk mail or follow an "unsubscribe" link, since this will only confirm that the spammers have a live address. Also, do not use your e-mail address when participating in chat rooms. Finally, you should carefully review a Web site's privacy policy when performing online activities such as shopping and banking, to ensure that your e-mail address will not be shared with a third party. Keep in mind that MSN does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Still, I guess this was yesterday...
"Microsoft® .NET Passport was temporarily unable to complete your request. Please try again "
Well i guess their servers are too busy selling my information right now.
I should try later.
That's right. Fake name, fake birthday, ZIP code 90210. But I did an oopsie when I went in to change my profile. Just to be funny, I thought I give them an even faker birthday than the fake one I put in, but I locked myself out of my account because now it thinks I'm 3 years old and I need my parent's permission to confirm my account. Oh well, guess I'll have to make another fake hotmail account with an adult age to give my first account his parent's permission.
...now that's innovation...
...Microsoft® Innovation (TM)
Kinda reminds me of a MS developer mailing list I accidently got subscribed to. I tried to unsubscribe
Easy solution: set up an out of office message for that list. Every message from the list gets quoted and sent back to the list with some tag like 'Hey look! I don't know how to use my mail client!'. You'll be unsubscribed within the day.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
1. Provide free email service.
2. Rape customer's privacy.
3. Profit!
Sounds like a plan, lets spam hotmail and tell them to make it easier for us to make it harder for them to spam us.
"The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else." - Bush 05
...because of some stupid little thing like this?
Not because Windows XP forces you to call Microsoft to "register" it if you buy a new motherboard?
Not because Outlook and Outlook Express open attachments and install viruses, worms, and trojans FOR you?
Not because Microsoft voids your software's license because you "installed it too many times"?
Not because Media Player was shipped with spyware in it?
Not because Microsoft is forcing ridiculous licensing schemes onto educational institutions?
Not because Microsoft treats their users like babies and thinks that they know better than you what you want to do with your computer?
Not because they got rid of Clippy from MS Office?
Not because they bullied OEMs to install ONLY Microsoft operating environments?
Good grief... If THIS is what it takes to drive people over the edge, they shoulda went with writing a new "we 0wNz your house, car, wife, and kids" clause in their EULA.
(If you're a user, login, go to Options > Personal Profile, and un-check the boxes at the bottom of that page.)
Shouldn't that read something like...
"If you're a user, then the preference to change is your email provider."
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
Don't you read anything? Everyone knows that if they support Mozilla, they will have to open source Excel. It's those damned viral licenses.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Please, young retard, if you're going to troll, read the fine tutorials at TrollAxor first. Then troll OSNews, and then, when you're good and ready, come back here and try your hand with the big boys.
.sig flaming Mac OS X for not being GPLed. Jeezus! And for God's sake, watch your spelling! Trolling is an art form. Are you Vincent Van Troll or just some punkass graffiti artist? Have some respect, man! Stand up straight! Shoulders back, chest out!
Unfortunately, your troll had nothing whatsoever going for it. Every article Jon Katz has ever posted is a better troll than that impotent little one-liner you just farted out onto the world. Here's some quick pointers to get you started on your road to Jedi Trolldom:
Your username is stupid. Big time. REAL trolls have intelligence and wit. You do not. So you know a letter. Big deal. Learn a few more and maybe I'll be impressed. Here's a couple for you, F U.
Good trolls are based in reality. They attack the victim at his heart - his precious belief structure. Now, did I mention Linux in my post? No, you pathetic beaver snot, I didn't. How are you supposed to draw flames when everybody knows you're a moron from the word 'go'? Flame Linux all you want, I don't care. If you wanna piss people off, at least call it Gnu/Linux and add a
Your 'free as in beer' reference is very very gay, much like you. It's so overused here I can't even begin to describe how boring it is. Mundane. It doesn't do it anymore. Instead, say "It's free, like your mama every Saturday night down at Chippy's Ho Bar. I can't wait to get her on that pool table and put my 8-ball in her corner pocket again, you know what I mean? I hope the lineup's shorter this week. Last week, the line was so long, I thought she was the new Star Wars movie." And hell, man, that's off the top of my head. You need to buy my trolling tapes, available on VHS and DVD, now only 19 easy payments of $49.99 each! Only *YOU* can change your life - only *I* can show you how.
"Take that spam and shove it". Oh god. What a weakass clincher. Your final line has to be your best line. Don't they teach you guys anything anymore? It has to enrage the righteous and amuse the wicked. You've got it all wrong. Misquoting some crappy 80's Contemporary Country Classic will only bring up fond memories. What you want is for them to bring up last Thursday's Veal Picatta.
Look, I'm sorry, son. Your heart's in the right place, but until you get better, you should maybe do some volunteer trolling for the 'BSD is dead' guy, or join the Goatse.cx team. You're not good enough to make it on your own yet. But don't lose hope. We were all young hotheaded trolls at one time or another. I've been right where you are now. Actually, I was there yesterday at lunch when I was shagging your sister on the dishwasher.
Keep at it. You have to be a bit more creative, and a bit more shocking. Don't just insult the guy, DESTROY HIS MIND! And supporting Microsoft won't draw as much action as flaming them - there's more pro-MS people on Slashdot now than ever, and they're all serious and gullible (obviously - they use Windows) and love to pick fights with the Open Source people. And despite having 95% market share, they're strangely bitter and paranoid. Perfect targets. Stupid oxen waiting to be pushed off a cliff. Do it. The force is strong in you, young one. Just think about the troll. Focus. Make the troll bend to your will. Become the troll.
I believe in you. You just need to focus, and channel the force into a razorsharp assault on decency - much like Cowboy Neal with those nude photos of him dressed as Sailor Moon. Truly the work of a mad genius. Magnificent.
Dr. Zoob Z. Zooberman
Professor of the Slashdot Trolling Academy
Home Ec. Department
P.S. I am going to be admitting myself to the Mister T Psychiatric Hospital tomorrow morning for a voluntary complete Cranial Relapsation with optional Chemodynamic purge, so I won't be able to respond to your questions and comments until Monday at the least, when I get my new brain from Igor down at the lab. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Watching Microsoft deal with "consumers" is like being an orderly in the coma ward, and walking in on the head physician while he's raping unconscious patients in their hospital beds.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Hey why don't we: Forward all our hotmail spam to abuse@hotmail.com? I know we'll get cut off after a few emails, but if all of slashdot does it.... Lord knows we slashdot websites left and right... We'd have to get it with outlook or OE, or for those brave hearted and determined enough to do it manually from the website: (god love em). If we all send a few emails their way, they will be punished rather well.
Oh yeah, and subscribe abuse@hotmail.com to all the gay porn you can...
Lousy facepalm.
How useful it is to read the final conclusion of your email adventure before even finding out how it started. Top posters really are "Read the book backwards" sorta people, aren't they?
"Don't get mad, get a monkey!"
That's right. Fake name, fake birthday, ZIP code 90210. But I did an oopsie when I went in to change my profile. Just to be funny, I thought I give them an even faker birthday than the fake one I put in, but I locked myself out of my account because now it thinks I'm 3 years old and I need my parent's permission to confirm my account.
Maybe if people want to put in fake data they should give a date of birth before 1900 and fill in "vampire" under occupation.
Yep, nobody cared when Yahoo did it... and Microsoft can't think of a frickin' idea on their own, so they probably copied this from Yahoo... Ha ha....
Juln
Also logged in to uncheck the flags when I heard this story. :-)
/Johnny
But now hotmail won't accept my First Name: Mads
It said it was reserved or prohibited!? How can M$ tell me that my first name i prohibited? My first name in my hotmail-account, and in real-life has always been Mads!
Is 'Mads' a curse-word in the english language, or what's up with that?
Well, so I had to type in another name. 'Johnny' it accepted fine, so from now on you all call me 'Johnny'
All your first name are belong to us.
/Mads, ups sorry..
JPEG's and banners and flash animations
Popups and opt-outs and priv'cy violations
Big boobs and sleep pills and herbal ginsengs,
This is the junk that my Hotmail box brings
Fake "" tags, disable Java,
Disable plugins from Macromedia
Limit the things that your browser can do,
This is the junk hotmail forces on you
When the dot nets,
When the hail storms,
When the passport pries,
I simply sign up for more hotmail accounts
And continue to falsify
ActiveX scripting and ASP pages
Profiteeting in which hotmail engages,
Exploiting users who don't have a clue,
This is what people at Microsoft do
Bending o'er backwards to meets terms of service,
Changing agreements that made me feel nervous
Clauses, execptions will bite you some day,
This legal mumbo has pushed me away
When the terms change,
When the box's checked,
It's my Waterloo
I'll never sign up for more hotmail accounts
From now on I'll use...
Netscape mail!