Question to relay to your more computer savvy friends perhaps
I just upgraded to yim 11 tonight and I was rather nonplussed at something. You cannot save your conversation history on just the local machine anymore. that is NOT an option. If you want to log you conversations, you MUST store it online with yahoo. Moreover the EULA sounds like they can rummage through your conversations too. Now, I know in principle they were free to do this long before now. But does this represent a sign they're more intensively data mining our conversations now? ie has it gone from "they might be watching for keywords about murder, arson etc and relaying it to the authorities" and now its moved to "they're trying to pimp their existing profile on you so they can charge more to the companies they sell it to?" And are any of the mainstream clients any better or is it time to migrate to one of the privacy guaranteeing IM programs ? (there's at least one out there I know of I just don't remember the name of it offhand)