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Old 10-24-2005, 11:28 PM
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Microsoft has quietly slipped in text ads into MSN Messenger's IM interface. When you open a conversation window with someone, you may notice them at the bottom of your chat window.



Unlike the ubiquitous text ads popularized by Google Adsense, these ads are not based on the text of your messages. But they do tend to cheapen the otherwise clean interface of MSN Messenger.
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Old 10-25-2005, 12:03 AM
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They've been there for quite a while now. Sorry but I gotta rate this article as old news. :(
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Old 10-25-2005, 12:19 AM
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Define "quite a while." If you've got IM news, be sure to post it!
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This came with 7.0, confirmed with 7.0.0777. Sorry Jeff :P
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Old 10-25-2005, 05:50 AM
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I believe the Mess Patch does allow you to remove them though...
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Old 10-25-2005, 07:32 AM
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I had seen the text ads, but until recently, they had always been internal Microsoft promotions (at least for me). Only recently did I begin getting ads for mortgages and other non-Microsoft products.
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