Why we removed Digsby

by Drew Burks on August 18, 2009 · 2 comments

We had this really neat Instant Message client

digsby Why we removed Digsbycalled Digsby, untill the end of last week when we discoverered some nasty implications and immediately took it off this site. We also removed the application from our PC’s.

The service was actually using our computers to make money and we were definitely not up for that at all.

If any of you Realtors

out there have Digsby on your site you will want to read more here on Lifehacker and consider your options.

 

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AllRise August 19, 2009 at 1:54 am

Lifehacker VS. Digsby – The public trial is now opened at AllRise community court. Join in to influence the verdict http://bit.ly/AllRise238

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Erick August 19, 2009 at 7:41 am

We’ve updated Digsby to show a notification the first time it runs. The option can be disabled in Preferences > Support Digsby. We should have been more upfront and we are working on making the option more prominent to the user.

Also, please see our blog post where we explain our revenue models – http://blog.digsby.com/archives/693

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