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Yahoo Messenger Blocks Outside IM Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the great-way-to-grow-the-service dept.

jj00 writes "CNET News is reporting that Yahoo has started blocking 3rd party Messenger clients from their service. The article is about Trillian, but I have noticed that my gaim client hasn't been working for the past few days." As reported earlier.

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  1. Windows Messenger has update also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use Microsloths IM as well and it required me to download an update when I logged on tonight, and it wouldn't let me on without updating... and it probably sent back the illegal CD key I use for my copy of XP. OOPS did I say that!?

  2. Re:ohh yeh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    This just pissis me off beyond all recognition!

    Nice trick. Do you turn green and start throwing cars around?

  3. Re:Their Network by AftanGustur · · Score: 5, Funny


    Make it better than the commercial offerings, and people will come

    Welcome stranger, we hope your space travel to our planet has ben a pleasant one.

    Unfortunately, on our planet, things are not as simple as on yours. Here on Earth, companies don't hesitade to abuse their market position or enourmous wealth to block normal competition.

    It doesn't matter if you create the best mousetrap, as long as Micro$traps controls the market you will get nowhere. You can't even advertise your new trap, since Micro$traps will threaten the magazines to stop advertising in their paper if yours will get printed.

    Welcome to earth, we hope you will have a pleasant visit.

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    echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
  4. Re:nah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, I do. They sure give me strange looks though.

  5. Re:why is this even an issue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    anyone who uses a proprietary network to do communication on is taking some pretty big chances...
    You mean like the the telephone system?
  6. Re:Lies by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny
    "If this has affected the way in which third parties interact with our service, it is merely a byproduct of our efforts to implement preventative measures to protect our users from potential spammers," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said.

    Well, irregardless she shouldn't have used the word "preventative." Don't misunderestimate me, I'm sure it gives the sentence an impactful feeling but it seemed unnecessary.

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  7. Re:Their Network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jabber has now passed ICQ in popularity

    Wow! That's amazing!

    Do you think that someday it will be even more popular than Gopher?

    Or -- maybe even -- more popular than Fingerd?

  8. Re:nah by Grumpendorfer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right, and OJ is hard at work looking for the real killer(s)...