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Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money

http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby-joins-the-dark-side-uses-your-pc-to-make-money

by flapjack • 17 years ago

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esessoms• 17 years ago

Digsby has never kept secret the fact that they were considering grid-computing as one possible way to monetize their product:

http://blog.digsby.com/archives/68

The license agreement is simply worded so as to make this possible.

flapjack• 17 years ago

True, but it's not just grid computing they're running automatically.

They also make it difficult to disable the grid computing (It's under "Support Digsby"), and they try to get the user to install six different pieces of crapware.

They do this under the guise of being ad free, but in reality they're advertising by sending out Announcements, which seems pretty shady to me.

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