Unfortunately, I avoid using Microsoft products whenever possible due to ethical and privacy related reasons. Thanks anyway.
I too avoid using Microsoft products and the other major ad companies. However, I DO have an Outlook account, specifically for this site. There's nothing to track since there's nothing to find on that account - just an online alias with a VPN accessing it. If you do that, then you won't have any issues. Don't hide behind security and privacy, there are plenty of ways to do this without compromising security or privacy.
As staff at Chat Avenue, we do not control what private users do or don't do. Side room staff are NOT Chat Avenue staff; we can't control them. Creating a side room is a feature they
paid for, with real-world money, and it's a feature they use with their own authority. How would you feel if you paid
twenty US dollars to make a side room, and then the owners of that site said "Look, this guy, he really doesn't trust Microsoft or ad companies, it's not his fault he seems sketchy, and uses guest accounts, he just wants some PG real-world interaction, pretty-please let him in?"
Now imagine if the owners of that site said "Let him in or we take the privileges that you paid for away"
You want us to do the second one, and something tells me, based on how you compose yourself about cyber-privacy and security, you would flip the can if you paid for a feature that was forced away from you because a centralized company decided you "abused" that feature.
Trust me, I flipped the can when they took away our ability to change our usernames for free (before I was staff, which means we can't change our usernames anyway).
By the way, there's a really cool company called Tuta, they do mail, and last I checked you can use their email service. They are privacy-focused and free, it wouldn't hurt to make an email with them specifically for this if you object to Outlook or
the infamous ad company's data-hoarding platforms. I've also heard good things about Onionmail, but that may not work given the ease-of-account-creation (since most users here would use those services to spam or evade detection for illegal activities, trust us, we've figured that out the hard way)