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