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[Fernando Capelle]

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It is terrible! I understand and appreciate the attempt to reduce the risk of phishing and malicious attacks, but they screwed up my primary method of avoiding them! Now, with the extra-long "safelinks.protection.outlook.com" link replacement, I don't feel safe clicking on any link! This is a major step backwards and a huge hindrance to my ability to determine if a message is legitimate (or a phishing attack) and if a link is safe or not. This "improvement" makes the product worse. Plus, it will probably cause more problems in the long run if it gives people a false sense of security that they will be protected if they click on a malicious link when (not "if") someone figures out how to imitate and hack the system so their malicious links look like the safe one. Unfortunately, this complaint will more than likely fall on deaf ears -- talking to Microsoft often is as effective as talking to a brick wall.

To add here is the page with more details - Advanced Outlook.com security for premium subscribers. The included FAQ says this about disabling these features and it also confirms the behaviour you are seeing:

To provide the best protection for your account, these features are on by default and not designed to be turned off. You can contact our customer service team via in-product support to have them deactivate the features on your behalf, but we do not recommend it.

After you activate the advanced security features, links in your email might look different. For example, in some messages links might appear longer than usual, and include text such as "na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com." This is related to the checks we perform to protect you from phishing attacks.

Are we supposed to assume that Microsoft will GUARANTEE that ALL the URL links that they replace with their " =" are SAFE for me to click on? If that is not the case, then Microsoft has made things worse. I want to see some official documentation from Microsoft that says Microsoft certifies and guarantees that the URL links that they replace are 100% safe (now and in the future). Again, Microsoft is a rude company for changing something so important without any kind of notification or opt-out capability.

Bear in mind this is a feature that's been around for years on the commercial side of Office 365, that's very much trusted. I know the links look a bit odd and it may seem strange but this is adding a level of protection that only comes with the top of the range Enterprise edition of Office 365 and will keep customers, now including consumers better protected from cyber-threats.

I'm still waiting for a method to disable this abject failure of Outlook/Office 365 "ATP". It obfuscates links in all emails - making it impossible for me to evaluate the trustworthiness of a link, while preventing me from navigating to legitimate and necessary web sites! I have a SIGNIFICANT amount of time invested in this product and a LOT of data under its management. My frustration level is rising to an unprecedented level over something very easy for Microsoft to fix!

Out of nowhere - Microsoft decided to completely change the operational model of interaction with links in emails and released it without providing users with a way to disable this "feature" if it causes them usability problems - like in my case - where it has completely hobbled my ability to navigate to needed web sites!!!

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