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You have to stop using Digsby

You have to stop using Digsby now.

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

CNET: Why it's time to ditch Digsby

I learned about Digsby from Lifehacker and both sites were pretty big proponents of it's use when it was new and amazing. It's still an awesome IM client but I've seen the spam IMs and recently had to reinstall it and wade through page after page of "free" program offers. None of this stuff existed a couple years ago when the client was new. I can't recommend Digsby anymore though. What pushed me over the edge was the idle CPU use. Yes, of course, this stuff is hidden within the labyrinthine EULA. The point is that when a program is going to use your idle CPU cycles for a purpose other than what I'm using it for (like an IM client using the idle cycles to index searches) then it needs a big fucking flashing sign that says "I'M DOING THIS THING YOU POTENTIALLY WILL NOT APPROVE OF" before it does such. Slipping it in there make it malware. It's just too much.

But I'm not going to just say "stop using this!" without giving you something else instead! Pidgin is free, without malware or crapware, and does nearly everything Digsby does with a couple of plugins. I'm also told that Trillian Astra is worth checking out.

But please, stop using Digsby.

Pidgin

Trillian Astra