Hotmail, kiss my ass.

[azurelunatic]

Have decided to complain to Hotmail, finally, about their stupid habit of making it impossible to open links in mail without their help.

Y'see, when you get mail, links are clickable -- and they open as a frame in a "helpful" Hotmail window.

Since I don't see the helpful, I'm reporting it as a problem. A bug, not a feature. I cannot click on a link without the wrong page opening. A hotmail page is not the page I am going to. Therefore, it is the wrong page. I click on the link, an erroneous page opens, and I have to copy and paste the link by hand into the new window to get where I'm trying to go. It doesn't take me where I want to go. It gives me a page I wasn't going to. It is broken.


Yes, I can play dense, immovable user. It's not a feature I want. I haven't been able to find a way to turn it off. Therefore, it is a bug.

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

You realize this is HoTMaiL and the odds of them changing the feature are zero to nil, right?

With the number of users they have it'd probably take hundreds of people complaining about any given thing for them to devote any resources to it. And if they think they're doing something 'for the users own good', then they'll just ignore the complaints anyway. After all, they target the service mainly at the nearly computer illiterate.

[azurelunatic]

Yep, I realize that.

And it's a legacy e-mail address anyway. But am I one to see an injustice that I can do something about, maybe, and not do anything?

And, unless I mistake myself, I *am* paying for their service. I have a paid MSN address; maybe I'll go duplicate the complaint.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

Good idea, it annoys me very much as well. It is not a feature, it is a bug.

[easalle.livejournal.com]

If you get enough people to complain about it you can change it! Remember one snowflake doesn't make a blizzard but it knows better than to give up. Or something like that?