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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Re:I Completely Agree With the Outrage! by ceoyoyo · 2012-08-16 10:44 · Score: 3, Informative

How is TCP supposed to survive, as a company and... Oh, wait.
Re:uTorrent 2.2.1 FTW by blahplusplus · 2012-08-16 11:58 · Score: 3, Informative

Just for those who don't know you can find old versions of programs at...
http://www.oldversion.com/
Re:Who gives a damn? by VortexCortex · 2012-08-16 19:11 · Score: 1, Informative

Or simply learn how to use a computer and download or create a program that doesn't have the ads, or totally bypasses them...