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January 21, 2007
Is Y! Messenger becoming as obnoxious as Real Player?
One of the things that really ticked me off in the late 90's and early 2000 was the way Real Media used to infect every aspect of my PC when I tried to view a Real Media video. This was during the time Microsoft was making a aggressive all-out assault on Real Media.
The last few times I have upgraded my Yahoo IM client I have had the same problems. Today when I upgraded it not only put a Yahoo Toolbar on my Firefox browser, it also put Yahoo! in the menu bar.
Yahoo! must have anticipated this would seriously piss people off, because they put the uninstall very prominently on the Menubar item. I was quickly able to uninstall this. The toolbar was not as simple as simply unchecking VIEW TOOLBAR ITEMS in the VIEW menu. I had to go into the toolbar settings to do an uninstall.
I know there will be a time in the future that Google will be just as evil - despite their "Don't be evil" mantra. But for now I am almost inclined to completely do away with Y! Messenger entirely.
Posted by Don at January 21, 2007 01:28 PM
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