Reviews of digsby

1. 
   Somnambulator

   Reviewing Build 75 Beta (Dec 15, 2009)

   there's no spyware or malware, it's got adware crap in the installer that you can disable. it also runs sort of a folding@home app by default that you can disable, though it's sort of buried in the options menus.
   
   i still have my original installer for a year ago that didnt include any ad-ware, but it's not really a big deal since you can disable the toolbar installs.
   
   digsby is a great great multi-protocol IM program. it has an auto-updater, support for every major and many minor protocols, great AIM-like interface, transparency, notifications that allow you to respond right in the popup box, and tabbed IMs.
   
   i used pidgin for a few years before discovering this and i could never go back
2. 
   Bess

   Reviewing Build 75 Beta (Dec 15, 2009)

   It is safe at 100% (just check facebook's community)
   i m using it since 1 year
3. 
   gilpin152

   Reviewing Build 75 Beta (Dec 14, 2009)

   I have to agree with "aruprc" and "statm1". This program is safe and very useful. I've used it for over a year now and I haven't had any problems "malware, spyware" whatever you want to call it. Yes, it does ask if you want to install "bloatware" but you can say no and it won't install. The developers have to get paid somehow, right?, well that's how they get paid (by bloatware, aka advertising). If you don't like fine, but don't call it a "waste of time", cause its not and hasn't been a waste of MY time.
4. 
   kbsoftware

   Reviewing Build 75 Beta (Dec 14, 2009)

   Malware is never trivial.
   
   I now recommend other chat clients like Trillian etc.
   
   There's this guy going around robbing house, he has to make money someway. But an hour before doing so he leaves a note on your door giving you a choice, you can check off to either have your house robbed or not. So if I get robbed it's my fault, I'm the idiot because I had a choice.
   My point is there's always other better ways to make revenue. Just because I have a choice doesn't mean what is being done is ok.
   They give us a choice now but you watch in a few years that choice will be gone. Then they'll introduce something new, even more wrong and that will have a choice, well for a while anyways.
5. 
   aruprc

   Reviewing Build 73 Beta (Dec 12, 2009)

   One of the best clients out there which is improving daily. The spyware issue is trivial as Digsby gives you choice of not checking those options during install.
   
   What digsby does, no other client can, that means handling and posting to social network from digsby itself, to Twitter, FB and other, considering all that, its resource use is quite low. It made a devout Pidgin user like myself convert and I miss Digsby big time in Linux. One of the reasons I boot into Windows just to use it. Its also very convenient with its pop out reply window, comes in handy when multi tasking. What they need to do is improve icon support and they need to add buddy pounce.

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1. Sep 21, 2009 - 3:45 PM
   DamianT

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