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

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

    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
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    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by chaos [gv
    this wasnt even a war this was a disgrace,we outnumbered them and still lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boombostik View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NinjaGator View Post
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by chaos [gv
    this wasnt even a war this was a disgrace,we outnumbered them and still lost.

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