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> ICQ recently disabled the OSCAR protocol, which means I am not able to use it with Pidgin anymore Which is a strange claim, as it seems to work for me. Got t

> ICQ recently disabled the OSCAR protocol, which means I am not able to use it with Pidgin anymore Which is a strange claim, as it seems to work for me. Got the message they were turning it off, and then it just continued to work. shrug

vthriller 8y ago
Not only mail.ru, current owner of ICQ, officially dropped support for OSCAR because of new WhatsApp-esque features [0], they also tricked a lot of users into linking phone numbers to ICQ accounts [1], presumably in preparation for Russian laws about identification of IM account owners [2]. (All links are in Russian.) [0] https://habr.com/ru/post/433900/ https://habr.com/ru/post/433900/ [1] https://habr.com/ru/post/434286/ https://habr.com/ru/post/434286/ [2] https://habr.com/ru/post/428874/ https://habr.com/ru/post/428874/
Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
From what I heard, you can still log in, but now if you try to send a message, it'll tell you that it's no longer supported. I imagine this behavior will eventually change.
- yxhuvud 8y ago
  Message sending also works.