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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 l
by 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/