Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients

NaDrew writes "ZDNet reports that Yahoo is once again blocking connections from Trillian (the alternative multi-protocol client). Yahoo tried this a few times last year and it looks like they're trying again. Cerulean, maker of Trillian, employs some excellent protocol engineers, who I have no doubt will quickly figure out Yahoo's latest obfuscation and release a patch. A quick fix discovered late this evening: Change your Y!IM host from scs.msg.yahoo.com to scs.yahoo.com, port 5050, and it should work. This is on Trillian 0.74H, not Pro."

Comments

Can you hear me now?

[MakoStorm]

nope!

Damn...

[N3koFever]

...and I wanted to speak with all the people I know who use Yahoo Messenger.

Oh, wait...

Re:Damn...

[zoloto]

When your significant other lives 500+ miles away, its a nice solution to 'see' them,

videosluts.com doesn't count.
But kudo's to you for figuring out where her video was being rebroadcasted from with "net"...

A word of advice...

[baudilus]

Don't log out.

Google

[TheLoneCabbage]

Makes you just itch for a google client doesn't it?

'Cause if it's Google it must be good!

GMail - like turning on the lights and watching the cockaroaches scatter!

"Set the IM-Sheild to rotating frequencies!"

[Lester67]

"Make it so, Number 1"

I can see the Yahoo engineers trying it now.

Re:Centericq is also broken

[compass46]

This is obviously spam... C'mon, Monica? A girl posting on Slashdot?!?!?!

Re:Centericq is also broken

[Malc]

Nor do I want to have to run multiple instances of VMWare so that I can use my multiple Yahoo and MSN logins. That requires more memory than I have in my machine!

Re:Centericq is also broken

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Greeeeeaaat. The "get paid to read email" spammers have discovered slashdot. What's next, link-exchangers and Herbalife? We should get her link in a front-page story and let "her" learn how her ISP earns money from the web when /. burns a year's worth of bandwidth in an hour.

Re:Gaim

[jimbolaya]

Blah, blah, blah about Gaim et al, let's get to the important stuff: What the hell kinda job do you have, man?