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RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus!
I've been a user of Messenger Plus! since 2002. Sure, I grew out of the toys like sounds and abuse of formatting and that kind of stuff, but I kept it for the handy shortcuts, floating contacts, POP notifications, skins to make the windows more compact and streamlined, scripts and, most especially, encrypted logging.

I was somewhat wary when adware first made its way into the installer, but since it was optional, I kept on using the extension, carefully unchecking the option to install it.

Now, if installing it without adware is no longer an option, well, installing it is no longer an option for me altogether.

I'm an IT technician. One of my jobs (and the most time consuming and aggravating, too) is to remove annoying (and increasingly sophisticated) adware from my clients' computers. I'm not going to just cave in and put that trash on my computer just to use a piece of software, even if it's software I like and I've been using for 11 years. Nobody likes adware. Nobody is happy to put up with it even if it enables them to install something.

Look at all those free and clean applications: GIMP, Mozilla Firefox, VLC... those are all applications of good quality that were started with little or no funding and managed to keep going without resorting to displaying advertisement directly on the user's computer. If you have to resort to requiring your users to install adware on their computers, then some very bad decisions have been made along the line in preventing, fixing and dealing with the funding problem(s). Even closed source software manage to stay free in other ways.

What is happening now is hurting Yuna Software's credibility like nothing else, not to mention the product's credibility. The optional adware was a pretty shitty move already, creating your own very questionable toolbar only made it worse; forcing it upon the users is undoubtedly the nail in the coffin.

Sure, I could just check the homepage or default search option, then revert it manually after the install... But it doesn't feel right. Lost credibility also means lost trust, plus the disturbing reports of users having, in the past, opted out of the adware and finding it installed on their computers anyway. It may even have happened to me but the memory isn't clear enough to tell is as a fact.

Long story short, Messenger Plus! is too costly to develop and/or the funding methods are inappropriate (and a serious lack of respect towards your users.) Either cut expenses or change your funding strategy.

Until that is fixed (and if it ever happens,) I'm out. (N)
03-14-2013 02:38 AM
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New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Nathalie on 02-10-2013 at 01:25 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by whiz on 02-10-2013 at 04:35 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by whiz on 02-10-2013 at 04:43 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 02-10-2013 at 08:15 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Chrono on 02-11-2013 at 04:46 AM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by viksra on 03-16-2013 at 02:59 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by k-sa on 02-11-2013 at 05:51 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Nathalie on 02-11-2013 at 10:06 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by prashker on 02-11-2013 at 01:36 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by jpg050 on 02-11-2013 at 03:35 PM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by prashker on 02-11-2013 at 04:00 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 02-11-2013 at 04:10 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by pollolibredegrasa on 02-11-2013 at 05:16 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 02-11-2013 at 07:11 PM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by matty on 02-11-2013 at 07:58 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Mnjul on 02-11-2013 at 07:21 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-11-2013 at 08:40 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 02-11-2013 at 08:41 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-11-2013 at 08:49 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by prashker on 02-11-2013 at 09:53 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Discrate on 02-12-2013 at 04:24 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-12-2013 at 04:32 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Nathalie on 02-12-2013 at 05:27 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by matty on 02-12-2013 at 07:20 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-13-2013 at 01:38 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Nathalie on 02-13-2013 at 01:52 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 02-13-2013 at 09:46 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 02-14-2013 at 02:42 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Chrono on 02-14-2013 at 03:16 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Spunky on 02-14-2013 at 03:47 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-14-2013 at 03:52 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Choli on 02-14-2013 at 08:40 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MELERIX on 02-16-2013 at 10:10 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Mnjul on 02-16-2013 at 11:32 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-16-2013 at 02:03 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Spunky on 02-16-2013 at 02:20 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by jessycardy on 02-17-2013 at 01:31 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by traxor on 02-17-2013 at 10:33 PM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by jessycardy on 02-18-2013 at 10:02 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by TICHO_CAM on 03-11-2013 at 08:43 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Dr Frankenstein on 03-14-2013 at 02:38 AM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by slay on 03-15-2013 at 12:21 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 03-14-2013 at 09:31 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 03-14-2013 at 11:39 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 03-14-2013 at 11:45 PM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 03-18-2013 at 11:14 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by uchihas on 03-15-2013 at 08:02 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by viksra on 03-16-2013 at 02:53 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by stephenjudge on 03-17-2013 at 11:47 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by elshagon on 03-18-2013 at 07:31 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by venom_zx on 03-18-2013 at 09:08 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-18-2013 at 10:40 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 03-19-2013 at 09:34 AM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by stephenjudge on 03-21-2013 at 08:03 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Hofc on 03-20-2013 at 08:30 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MrMoustache on 03-21-2013 at 05:38 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 03-21-2013 at 11:33 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Raa on 03-23-2013 at 11:47 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by DJVG on 03-24-2013 at 12:08 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by venom_zx on 03-24-2013 at 11:14 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 03-24-2013 at 06:24 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by viksra on 03-27-2013 at 07:27 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by a.smith on 03-27-2013 at 07:32 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by duck! on 03-29-2013 at 02:36 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by YottabyteWizard on 04-09-2013 at 07:04 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Nathalie on 04-23-2013 at 08:28 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 04-23-2013 at 09:49 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 04-24-2013 at 02:16 AM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 04-24-2013 at 11:20 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 04-25-2013 at 01:19 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 04-25-2013 at 01:37 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by MeEtc on 04-25-2013 at 03:34 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 04-27-2013 at 11:49 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 04-27-2013 at 01:46 PM
RE: RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 04-28-2013 at 09:38 AM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by olivex on 05-23-2013 at 08:16 PM
RE: New Installer for Messenger Plus! - by Arcticwolfx on 06-16-2013 at 12:33 PM


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