Yahoo Blocks Trillian

24 Jun, 2004 at 11:42am ET Article published in Tech

Yahoo on Wednesday began blocking Cerulean Studios’ Trillian software from communicating with its instant messaging service in its latest step to fence its popular client from third-party integrators.

Beginning at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Yahoo changed its instant messaging language to prevent third-party services, such as Trillian, from accessing its service. Like previous statements, the company said the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service.

Source: ZDNet

Comments

24 Jun 2004 ~ 12:31pm QCH I was wondering... grrrrrr..... Not that I have that many Yahoo contacts...

Someone will crack it REALLY soon.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 12:48pm KingFish Probably so Q but according to the article Yahoo will plug all the attempts of workarounds by Trillian.

KF
24 Jun 2004 ~ 12:52pm QCH grrr.... I love my trillian. I would even pay a few dollars extra to get Trillian to pay for the code from Yahoo.

I hate having icons in the system tray. I have 5 icons. Antivirus, Firewall, Speaker, Trillian, and outlook.... that's it.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 1:01pm mmonnin I havent been able to connect to it in a LONG TIME. First with 1.0 and now with 2.0 it says my password is incorrect. But even if I go to check me email from trillian it will log me in to my email so I know its right.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 1:47pm QCH !!! THIS JUST IN !!!

Trillian Pro has already hacked a fix!!!! (hmmmm less than 24 hrs to fix the issue.)

The "incorrect password" is the error you will get if you don't patch Trillian with the new version. Trillian has it up on their website. I'm at 2.013 now.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 1:52pm primesuspect lol... Cerulean rocks
24 Jun 2004 ~ 3:04pm Templar Didn't they try this before? Or was that Microsoft?
24 Jun 2004 ~ 4:15pm Thrax It was AOL.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 6:16pm qparadox Only 5 icons in your system tray? I use trayit and have nearly 30 icons in my system tray. I perfer them in the system tray than in the start bar thing.

I use gaim but I don't bother loggin onto yahoo. No one I know uses it really and it doesn't have any superb features that i've found.
24 Jun 2004 ~ 9:02pm KingFish Watch this become the next corporate peeing contest between these two. The lawyers will love it.

KF
25 Jun 2004 ~ 7:38pm dodo

qparadox wrote:

Only 5 icons in your system tray? I use trayit and have nearly 30 icons in my system tray. I perfer them in the system tray than in the start bar thing.

I use gaim but I don't bother loggin onto yahoo. No one I know uses it really and it doesn't have any superb features that i've found.

Im with you QCH, I have one thing in my tray: AIM. I cant find a way to remove it though.

~dodo