BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:12AM from the readers-have-long-memories dept.

hypnosec writes "BitTorrent has backtracked on their stance that uTorrent ads cannot be 'turned off,' following a user revolt. They announced that users can opt-out of sponsored torrents if they don't wish to see them. Last weekend BitTorrent announced it would make uTorrent ad-enabled and that it would have a 'sponsored torrents' feature which couldn't be disabled. As one would have imagined, this didn't go over well with many users, and they let out their anger on the uTorrent forums. 'You seriously think that uTorrent is going to survive now? The Admin/Devs are seriously deluded. Pure greed has turned your once loved app into a bloated and buggy cash cow,' said one user."

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Or pay for... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-16 09:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

your porn/movies/music instead of leeching off of society.
Re:Why bother with ads? You don't HAVE to! by macraig · 2012-08-16 11:24 · Score: -1, Flamebait

For better or worse, you really aren't neurotypical. Apparently for the worse, given the largely incoherent scrawl above and the other online examples of your attempts at communicating I've belatedly found. The software may be nifty, but I can't readily trust software from someone with a personality more borderline than Hans Reiser. There are plenty of other methods and tools to manage the hosts file and blocklists in general, whose authors aren't nearly so... provocative.