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Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients

Posted by michael on from the purely-accidental dept.

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."

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  1. Funny.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because I happen to be on Yahoo! right now using Trillian 2.012 Pro.

  2. Re:So by mirko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this a Flamebait ?
    Has somebody shit in the moderator's cereals ?

    We are supposed to be a community, we have knowledge of P2P and IRC, we have huge allies such as Google, so I am just stating the obvious : if we could write Messenger clients that could work upon existing protocols, why not develop them a little further to use ours improved ones ?

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    Trolling using another account since 2005.
  3. Re:Trillian by iacyclone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kind of the same way RedHat and others make money off of the hard work of kernel developers. They don't seem to mind.