MSN Chat Spies on you to (what else?) Serve Ads!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-10-28 12:02pm

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2380

http://www.spywareinfo.net/oct27,2005#creepy

I recommend Trillian and GAIM as a replacement...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-10-28 12:27pm

And to use MSN chat you must pay, right? Wow.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-10-28 01:06pm

Rogue 9 wrote:And to use MSN chat you must pay, right? Wow.

WTF? So you get fucked both ways now? I believe that situation is usually called BOHICA.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-10-28 01:10pm

MSN Messenger isn't a charging service, or at least, MS is rather slow to send me a bill for all my useless chats using it.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-10-28 03:36pm

Messenger isn't; the chatrooms are. They started charging about a year and a half ago, as I recall.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-10-28 03:48pm

Eh, I don't like Microsoft, but this really isn't any worse than Gmail. In any case, never used MSN services other than Hotmail before I switched to Yahoo and then Gmail.