I Love Trillian and I am not real Happy with Yahoo at this moment seems the idiots over their are blocking those of us using Trillian as our IM client. Who in their right mind wants 4-5 Instant Message clients sitting on their taskbar especially when the can run one program and have them all. It is a beautiful thing I don’t get spam advertised and I used to be able to login to all 4 of my IM accounts.
The solution is simple tell all of those that I chat with on Yahoo to move to one of the remaining services that are not blocked. Yahoo just doesn’t get it do they, no wonder they continue to loose the search engine war and screw up every other half assed service they run. [ZDNet]
The reason Yahoo blocks thrid party clients is because they cannot send advertisements to the end user through them. The ads are how they provide their free service to you. For example, to enter a chat room, one must wait through a 20 second ad display.
The people at Yahoo ‘get it’ completely – they need to get paid to continue, and the more people who use third party chat clients, the less they can get paid.
It’s a free service, they owe you nothing, and I don’t think you have much right to complain on the matter. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
And when did Yahoo start making browsers?
Trillian has already posted a patch. I’ve installed it and it works. But for how long I wonder.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/support/20040624.php