[Pidgin] #39: Make privacy work

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#39: Make privacy work
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 Reporter:  seanegan  |        Owner:           
     Type:  task      |       Status:  new      
Milestone:  3.0.0     |    Component:  libpurple
  Version:  2.0       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:            |  
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Comment(by smitty):

 Thanks DBDigital much appreciated,

 the webaware option in pidgin was unchecked on my ICQ account, it was off
 on pidgin since day 1 , that one i'm pretty sure about.

 The weblink to the webicq doesn't have the settings you talked about, or i
 didn't find it. So i went on the main icq site, and looked in settings on
 my profile and saw "Share my online status with ICQ users" was unchecked
 too. But thats no garantee a spambot won't try to make contact by
 phishing.

 So i just don't get it. the spambots must just be fishing for active
 users. Best not to answer anything when you click deny on pidgin, just
 click cancel.

 But the problem remains that eventough all this is done, i still get add
 requests each day.

 So it all comes down to pidgin still displaying the reqs it receives from
 the server or direct from a spambot if they bypass the server somehow,
 eventhough the privacy setting in tools is set to "only users on my
 buddylist".

 so i guess it doesnt respect its own settings.

 That's an annoying bug that needs to be squashed.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/39#comment:18>
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