Mxit protocol pop-up ads

[David Woolley]

Mark Roux wrote:
> 
> I'm using the MXit protocol for pidgin (mobile chat protocol, from
> http://devzone.mxit.com/libPurple/downloads/ which I know isn't
> supported by pidgin), but I am wondering if there is any way to
> prevent pop-up window ads that this plugin creates when pidgin starts
> up? I've had a look around and can't find any way to do this (I'm not
> even sure if ads are allowed, since its an open source plugin, seems

Open source just means that you can modify the source code to remove the 
advert generation.  It doesn't prevent adverts, but any such bit of open 
source software that is used by users with programming skills will 
quickly get forked into a version without the adverts!



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