AOL To Be Free For Broadband Users?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 6, 2006 @09:58AM from the already-have-the-intertron-thanks dept.

mikesd81 writes "AOL may give away more services including its AOL.com accounts reserved for paying customers. They have a proposal under consideration which calls for Time Warner's online unit to stop charging subscription fees to users who have high-speed Internet access or even dial-up service from a rival provider. Under the plan the company would continue to charge the fees for those needing dial-up access through AOL. The AOL software also would allow subscribers to continue using instant messaging, Web journals and other services without having to download separate software or figure out Web-based options. That would ease the transition and encourage them to keep using AOL services, the person familiar with the matter said."

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AOL is the epitomy of corporate addware by rucs_hack · 2006-07-06 10:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

My mother (in spite of my protestations) has used AOL for years.

She's stopping now though, because even though she pays a high monthly subscription, she gets bombarded with adverts from AOL, even while their addware and spyware 'zapper' is running.
There are even usually two adverts on the logoff screen.

I can't beleive it, but they've actually managed to suck more.