Tell HN: Microsoft Is at It Again

1 points by evo_9 ↗ HN
I just had a co-worder share his personal email with me in MS Teams; I copied / pasted that into an email and sent it to my personal email.

When I click this email link it attempts to open FN Teams on my person computer so I can actually use it... and trying to copying the email address produces a huge string of nonsense when I paste it into an editor to inspect.

I could retype the email carefully because it's still displaying it in the middle of their horseshit link, but I'm not going to do that.

Anyway... just another ding in their reputation for me, and if I have any say in it at my company I will strongly push to get off FN Teams now. End of rant...

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It's Microsoft's Safelinks wrapping raw strings into long tracking URLs. It breaks clean plain-text copy-pasting and bloats the clipboard buffer. Extremely frustrating for daily workflow.
You can copy from a link by holding alt while you click and drag.