Quote the Yahoo? Nevermore!

Search engine? Instant Messenger? Portal? Webmail? Yahoo has all of these implements. Yahoo also supplies Gator, Claria, Gain, CMESII, Whatever They Are Called Today with 31% of their market!!!!! This is not rocket science. Don't want adware/spyware? Stop using Yahoo. Am I getting through to you? No? Well, let me ask you this; how are the rest of the ostriches?

I know how hard it is to shake off Yahooitis. Still residing on my machine is their instant messenger service. If a suitable alternative can be found then the beach house will de-Yahooize immediately. After the first of the new year it looks like I'll switch to that horrible Microsoft IM if no alternative is found. At least there is no adware/spyware involved.

My ability to communicate will be lessened with some folks, but the peace of mind knowing I do not support a site that blatantly uses spyware will be enhanced. Yahoo even has the nerve to promote an anti-adware/spyware program that forgives the Gator/Weatherbug/scope-whatever people!

Get your head out of the sand and go read these links:

eWeek Yahoo Plays Favorites with Some Adware

PCPitStop Yahoo and Claria

SpywareInfo Yahoo playing both sides of the spyware issue

SearchEngine Forums Does Yahoo support thiefware?

It will be hard for some folks to accept the fact that Yahoo is promoting bad juju. They've been around a long time and this is not the first time they've danced with the devil. Being old as dirt helps me recall this problem in the ancient past of the 1990s. Anyway, come January 1, 2005, Yahoo IM will be dropped and some other IM will be used. Just can't support a site that embeds spyware/adware/thiefware/malware/dungware in their site.

"Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied."
-Eudora Welty