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Today I launched Outlook Desktop 2019 and I am greeted with a yellow bar stating: "PRIVACY SETTINGS APPLIED Your account privacy settings are being applied to this device. To adjust your settings go to privacy settings". The last sentence is an underlined link and hovering over it says "click here for more", yet it does nothing when clicked. I've clicked it a dozen times.
I have a Microsoft personal/consumer account AND a Office 365 Business Account. I am using both of them with Outlook desktop. I am signing into Windows 10 with a local user account though.
Right now I don't have a clue which privacy settings management mechanism is being applied to this device, or Outlook as the warning comes up in Outlook desktop rather than a Windows notificaton. Is it Windows 10 Privacy Settings? Is it the Microsoft Account Privacy Settings? OR Is it the Office 365 Business Account Privacy Settings? The link doesn't work so I don't know where to go check/adjust this as it suggests. I don't even know which category to post this.
What I REALLY want from Microsoft for Christmas is to stop wasting my time having to deal with things like this. I can't get any work done due to the constant management of the computer, applications, online accounts, security, telemetry, updates, upgrades, notifications, nag nag nag nag nag.... ALL THE TIMEand all of it seems to be unwelcome interruptions too. I thought computers and technology were supposed to help us.. It's becoming a nightmare to use it.
This constant interrupting for updating, upgrading, reviewing, renewing, deprecation/changing of things I use, changing of how I do things is making me frustrated with Microsoft products and services. I hear it's much simpler and easier on Apple's platform.
Anyone got a clue what exactly is generating this warning in Outlook?
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I agree 100%.
Feels like Microsoft thinks all of its users have advanced degree in computers. After 3 months of using Windows 10, I'm still feeling the pain ... almost on daily basis. But switching to Apple will have its own set of pain. Sadly, there is little recourse.
Today I received the exact same message, no clue why.
This link helped me:
I just received the same message for the first time today, and yes, it was confusing and annoying, because it didn't allow me to click through and see what it was talking about. Thanks to Arko's link above, though, at least I now realise what's going on.
Ironically, this interruption has probably come BECAUSE Microsoft is trying to simplify things and make them less confusing. Privacy settings used to be all over the place, so you really didn't know what information you were giving out and what was being done with it. Now these are being gathered together in one place, so don't have to go hunting through the various settings screens.
So, thank you Microsoft for trying to simplify privacy settings, but please, can you test your yellow notification bars to make sure they actually work?
