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Google Reinstates Federated Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging

Posted by Soulskill on from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept.

jrepin writes "A few weeks ago the FSF reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber service, and has removed the invite block. This was announced a few days ago in a public mailing list post. This means that users of all Jabber servers will once again be able to fully communicate with Google users."

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  1. Can you trust Google, when you are the product? by dehole · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google has shown that they will take away the free services they offer at any time, or even increase the advertising in them to make them almost unusable to some (such as Google Maps).

    What Microsoft learned is that you are still going to be profitable if your platform is the major one that people use. Google's free services are really good, but if you choose to use them, you prevent a better alternative from appearing. Since Google supports CISPA, that alone should make you ban all Google products.