(Disclaimer: I have written a client that is currently broken. http://users.starpower.net/marti1/yod.el.html)
This is third post I've read that excuses Yahoo! with the bogus ad revenue argument.
I have no problem with Yahoo! making ad revenue, but the Yahoo! Messenger client does not require you to view ads. You can turn off Yahoo! Insider in preferences, and neither the Buddy window nor the IM window displays advertisements (unlike AIM).
Yahoo! does display ads in their chatroom client. They are ineffective because they are displayed at the bottom of the application where you can avoid them completely by moving that part of window off the bottom of the screen and continue chatting.
The porn bots are more effective advertisers than Yahoo!
I like the Yahoo service, and although I don't have enough users to matter, I would support their advertising efforts (even when my client is run in a console).
In the end, I think the Yahoo! policy of protecting their closed protocol will cost them market share. And that will hurt ad revenue more than any third party client.
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Right! That's why it should be called GNU/Perl/Linux.
(Disclaimer: I have written a client that is currently broken. http://users.starpower.net/marti1/yod.el.html) This is third post I've read that excuses Yahoo! with the bogus ad revenue argument. I have no problem with Yahoo! making ad revenue, but the Yahoo! Messenger client does not require you to view ads. You can turn off Yahoo! Insider in preferences, and neither the Buddy window nor the IM window displays advertisements (unlike AIM). Yahoo! does display ads in their chatroom client. They are ineffective because they are displayed at the bottom of the application where you can avoid them completely by moving that part of window off the bottom of the screen and continue chatting. The porn bots are more effective advertisers than Yahoo! I like the Yahoo service, and although I don't have enough users to matter, I would support their advertising efforts (even when my client is run in a console). In the end, I think the Yahoo! policy of protecting their closed protocol will cost them market share. And that will hurt ad revenue more than any third party client. elisp_messenger at yahoo. com
Bush is evil. These scientists are 100% correct.