In the EULA you give them permission to a lot of things not immediately appearant - including displaying ads in dubious forms. * Beware of all the adware, toolbars, 'cleaners' and other crap the installer tries to install in this 'freeware'. For now, I recommend Miranda IM or Pidgin as better alternatives for multiprotocal clients. If Digsby were to remove the adware and discontinue storing user passwords for protocols, I would give Digsby a 4 rating. If the IM client was as bad as the adware and other business practices that are included in the Digsby package, I would not have given it a 2. I have had trouble with file transfers in certain IM protocals, and I've noticed quite a bit of text-input bugs where strange characters start to appear for no reason.Īll in all, Digsby is a good client, which is why it receives a rating above 1 for me. Why does Digsby need to store my information, including my various protocol passwords? If you ever request to change your password on the website, it will ask you to type in your IM protocol passwords to verify that they are correct. The Digsby account you have to make in order to use the client actually knows your passwords. Upon install, you must click through what seems like an infinite number of adware installers, unselect them, and finally get to the actual application you downloaded in the first place. Digsby is a client that started on a noble path and later morphed into the ad-driven mess it is today.

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