Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money

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08-14-2009, 02:19 PM
DarkSpoon

Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money

http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby...-to-make-money

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It Gets Even Worse: Your PC is Being Used Without Your Knowledge

You can debate the merits of bundled crapware, and brush away the despicable nature of preying on those lacking adequate tech skills, but did you realize that Digsby is also using your processor to make money?

That's right. Buried in the Terms of Service that almost nobody ever bothers reading, there's this exploiting-the-fine-print gem explaining that they will use your CPU to run distributed computing problems that make them money:

posted this on FB earlier. i recommended this messenger a few times here. pretty pissed at this move. im using Pidgin now.

http://pidgin.im
08-14-2009, 02:41 PM
Boombostik

Unfortunately, Pidgin doesn't support FB chat, which is a feature I really, really loved about Digsby, on top of the skins available for it.
08-14-2009, 10:11 PM
DESTRUCTION

owned
08-15-2009, 02:22 AM
NinjaGator

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Originally Posted by Boombostik

Unfortunately, Pidgin doesn't support FB chat, which is a feature I really, really loved about Digsby, on top of the skins available for it.

fellow, I thought you strictly used Meebo.
08-15-2009, 04:06 AM
Boombostik

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Originally Posted by NinjaGator

fellow, I thought you strictly used Meebo.

Started to cbf going into a different tab to IM.

Plus Digsby had UBER skins/themes available. I shall miss it.