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Legacy Yahoo Messenger App Being Retired (pcmag.com)
Reader Irishman writes: Looks like August 5, 2016 is the last day for people clinging to the old desktop version of Yahoo Messenger. A new version is supposedly in the works but otherwise, it will be the mobile app or the web version. From a PCMag report: According to a new announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won't be able to use it to chat with your friends. Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you currently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they'll be going away on August 5 as well. You'll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you really need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends.
The web version they silently deployed some time ago is total crap, now YM is definitely dead.
When the human body goes into shock from blood loss, the first reaction is to shut off blood flow to the extremities so there is enough blood left to keep the brain and core going. I see this announcement as analogous for Yahoo, except it's "cash shock" at work.
Back to ICQ I guess.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
for Trillian and Pidgin.
I used to be invested in MSN chat... then that went away.
Now I just have Google, Yahoo!, AOL and FB in my Trillian client.
I fully expect FB to go next, followed by Google. AOL doesn't have enough market share to be a bully so I am guessing that will be my new primary chat network (until they go under or get bought out).
One at a time, I will be dropping off chat networks. There is no way I am being railroaded into bloatware chat apps though.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Logged in to icq.com to change my icq password and suddenly it reported a compromised account (i guess because it never saw the ip before) and required me to add a mobile number to the account. If i were an attacker, i now not only had the old password (and can change it to a new one), but would even have added my number as recovery option. So i guess security isn't the issue here, they want to collect phone numbers.
And without adding it, i can login with a client, but sending a message returns, that the account is locked.
Thankfully it was only an old account i never used much and not my primary one.
I work in physical commodities trading. Think cargoes of fuel, grain, derivatives, etc. 90% of my deals are closed via Yahoo, either directly with counterparties or via brokers. Brokers "flash" obscure quotes for things such as Eurobob/WTI spreads, ethanol, calendar spread swaps, truckloads of X ready to go to Y, etc. Not sure if there are any profesions who rely on Yahoo as much as mine. (Incidentally, a lot of guys in other markets use AOL, mostly natural gas).
If you use any major corporation's chat app. It's the best kept secret in the world that Skype cybersex videos leak out everywhere. Every single call on Skype and the rest are captured and stored until deletion.
Ed Snowden's conscience call pissed off the US government especially the spy agencies.
Everybody should be using encryption on everything, and much of the new stuff is compromised. This is the last secure version of Tails. Infiltration/lies is how subterfuge happens. All new versions of Tails are garbage.
Download the impossible-to-find-now ISO here, it's SHA and sig match the original distribution.
On Tor
http://lsuzvpko6w6hzpnn.onion/tails-1-4-1-i386-iso-multilang-tntvillage-t10922671.html
On Clearnet
https://kat.cr/tails-1-4-1-i386-iso-multilang-tntvillage-t10922671.html
You say what to download, and where to download it, what you don't say is why you think the rest of tails is compromised. Citation please.
Are you telling me that those losers are actually still around? Talk about some epic strugglers... Yahoo has been trying to claw their way out of a grave(which they dug themselves) for nearly as long as they've been around.
I wish they would stop fighting it and just die already... it's embarrassing seeing this once proud company fighting death like this... struggling for every last breath... kind of like AOL... poor bastards.
But tell me why I shouldn't vote for her.
(says it all)
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I guess this app needs to be killed because it doesn't harvest the user's phonebook and telephone number (among other things).
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Why don't you start a Kickstarter campaign to keep your old screen name active?
I come here for the love
Are you two trolls having fun?
I can't wait until millions of Mexicans replace you and your family's jobs
hillary 2016!
It probably costs about $200.00 in bandwidth a month to run yahoo messenger. The program aint exactly a cash cow to run.
Yahoo - the most anti-social company in the world. While facebook brings millions into their messenger, yahoo kills theirs.
Just that spoiled cunt Marissa Mayer putting 1 last dagger into whatever life was left in that stiff of of a company
Undocumented Feature
Q: Can I use Yahoo Messenger with 3rd party messaging apps?
A: No. The new version of Yahoo Messenger doesn't work with 3rd party clients, like Trillian and Pidgin.
The entire reason for them shutting this down is to cut off 3rd-party chat apps so you're forced to use their solution, including any embedded ads and backdoors they implement. Pidgin and Trillian both support out-of-band encryption and security plugins so you can hide the content of your chats entirely, but this new platform entirely blocks that now.
So basically this is Yahoo forcing you to let them see all your chats, AND their ads, in effect the bean-counters said: "Make this stop hemorrhaging money!" and the only way to do that is to prevent any form of freeloading, and as a side-effect all secondary security is unavailable as well now too.
- WolfWings, too lazy forever to login to /., but seriously loving the improvements. Feels like old times again!
Because she is evil, sinister and nefarious (not necessarily in that order).
Vote Trump or don't vote.
but I am also evil, sinister and nefarious YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
What *are* viable alternatives for text-oriented desktop messenger clients? All I'm aware of are Skype, Facebook and Google. One nice feature about Yahoo most others don't have, your contacts didn't automatically get all your personal information just by adding you to their contact list, and you didn't need to provide a phone number to sign up.
This was the reason there still were a few Yahoo holdouts left, what's left?
I assume they will still work with the same servers?
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