No, Patchou wont put it back in.
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Originally posted by Choli
Patchou adds an optional sponsor to earn money. It's optional, but if nobody installs it, Patchou doesn't earn money, so Patchou wants that people installs the sponsor (maybe not all his users, but some percentage). In this scenario, isn't it strange that Patchou removes the banner, that gives MS money? I understand Patchou and his decission. The same as Patchou, behind Messenger there are lots of programmers that have to earn money. MS gets that money from the ads in messenger. So it's illogical that Patchou will remove the banner, imo.
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Originally posted by Chrono
Since patchou has his own (optional) sponsor program, he knows that the money they make by showing these ads is important to them.
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Originally posted by Demandred
So why didn't Patchou removed it in previous releases then?
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Originally posted by Patchou
I removed it only now because the technical change in Messenger 7 forced me to reconsider the feature.
Please, try to understand, I know some of you really don't like this but it is final (and its not like mess.be didn't offer alternatives).
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I assure you that Microsoft never asked me to remove this option from Messenger. But again, they want Messenger 7 to start generating some real revenue for them and I'm not going to cause them troubles. There will always be other addons/patches to do that anyway so you'll always have an option, one way or the other.
You can find patches on
http://www.mess.be/ to remove the banner.
Note that patching the executable of MSN/Windows Messenger is illegal.
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