New Digsby installer loaded with bloat and adverts

Oh and btw, its not TRICKING the user if they clearly give you the option to decline the installation. If thats tricking to you then you belong on the short bus.

And ya, i've installed it last week when it first came out. I was surprised, but thankfully I have an IQ higher than a 1st graders and I figured out how to decline the extra installs.

@Petey:
Why should I have to put up with it. I can just as easily use Pidgin, which in my opinion is better anyways. Digsby has stopped me from using it.

At least with Digsby I was able to avoid the junk, but the new foxit 3.0 is pretty confusing in the way it offers the junk. I installed a toolbar even though I thought I had unchecked everything.

Ugh...installers that have ANY advertising at ALL, or that try to install ANYTHING other than the app I'm trying to install, massively piss me off, and make me lose a huge amount of respect for their creators. Nine times out of ten I'll find a different app to install. Such a blatant, mindless attempt at shoving crap I didn't ask for down my throat is an inexcusable offense, as far as I'm concerned.

*stews*

I found it worth while to skip to the end and install the actuall program. But I didn't find the crap in the middle amusing at all. Do they actually make that much money for it to be worth it?

I have no problem with this at all. The optional software install part is very clear and quick to skip past. And once you have Digsby installed, it can update automatically when you log in. So, after using Digsby for many many months, I would have only had to skip past the optional parts of the install once. I would say that's a 30 seconds well spent.
I also noticed that the actual content of this blog post takes up well under 50% of the screen real estate of the page. Just a dash of hypocrisy there, no? :)

Well I still have a Digsby installer from 3 Nov 08 so I'll just stick with that then I guess.

the problem with crapware is that when I want someone else to download the program that is computer challenged - they end up getting the crapware because they dont know otherwise.

Besides, Digsby isnt any better than most other multi-IM clients. Its still Pidgin for me until someone gets IRC and XFire without plugins.

I'd like to comment that all are completely optional. The registry edit to track you on their site however, is bogus. The whole downloader seems fishy and unnecessary, especially for something like a chat client. Having ads during the installing process does not bother me so long as I can decline; as mentioned before, there are ads all over downloadsquad as well, and you are not forced to click them to read any articles. However, I will concede that the "no" option is disguised as a "decline" button. In most people's experiences, hitting "decline" will result in the end of installation; ergo, it's misleading. I think the whole installer is a bit shady. Ditch it in the next version in favour of a one-time download installer as previously used, and put ads in that with a conspicuous "No" button. Even better if there was a "No, I do not want to install ANYTHING but Digsby" button that skipped the rest of the offers as well. But that's wishful thinking.

I do like Digsby, but when i tried to install it on a new computer today, I got all the same offers. Do you know where i can get the actual program installer without having to use this manager, or where the manager actually places the .exe after it downloads it?

Check your tips email once and a while, I sent this tip in about a week or two ago. Heh.

Here the link to digsby offline installer..
http://update.digsby.com/install/digsby_setup.exe

It does feel like a pain to skip, and you have to be careful not to install anything unwillingly. However, this method is still better than having paid software, or ones that have advertising embedded in them (see Windows Live Messenger).

I became aware of Digsby from Lifehacker's list of apps that people were most thankful for. Intrigued, I immediately attempted to download and install the software, but for reasons unknown (at the time), I was unable to download the installer through the corporate firewall. Once I got home, I was able to download the software that allowed me to download the ..... uhhhh ... first clue that something wasn't going well. So I finally get the exe and started the install, agree to the terms of use, then got no fewer than 5 "offers" ranging from the benign (yahoo toolbar) to the truly dubious (freeze.com). While I have the knowledge to not click on everything that pops up in my face, many people who may not have this experience may not know of the perils of clicking on these "offers". I DO appreciate that the installer clearly allows you to opt out. But, the presence alone of these known crapware apps sheds a considerable shadow on the integrity of the software for me. If you want your "free" software with these "offers", go ahead and roll the dice. Me - I'm sticking w/ Pidgen.

For the Digsby rep who posted - thanks for your input and PLEASE reconsider this experiment.

If you think this is bad, you should check out their new 'help digsby do research' option that's buried in their menu structure and ENABLED BY DEFAULT. This allows your computer to join a computational botnet that does commercial work that the digsby team gets paid for (think folding@home for money). Notice your laptop fan whirring away unexpectedly? You're probably doing protein analysis for some drug company. Totally shady. I'm dropping Digsby like a hot potato, I've lost all trust in the developers if they somehow think this is 'okay'.

I use filehippo to get the most up to date versions of applications.
I first tried Digsby a while back, and didn't like it much in comparison to pidgin. The installer then was around 14mb.

I saw a post on lifehacker which had a link to a very nice Digsby theme that made me decide to give the newer version a try. The installer was much smaller.

After realizing all the "crap" that came with the install, I gave myself 2 options.

1) Use the most up to date version of Pidgin (which freezes when quitting with the version 2.5.3)
2) Download the installer for build 37 which is the last installer without the "crap" and let it update from there.

What pissed me off after reading this article is the research option enabled by default. Nowhere was there notification of this option without looking for it yourself. Thanks to this post, I have now disabled that feature which can be found under "Help"

I will use it for now, or at least until the pidgin bug is fixed. It's not a bad client, I just dislike their approach to make a few bucks.

I agree with this blog, Digsby has become crapware. I wouldn't be complaining about it, but because of this new bullshit installer I can't even install the software I want so I am going to complain. I unclick all of the adware it tries to install, and when i get to installing digsby it says failed to download file. Firewall was off and everything yet the program wouldn't download. I wouldn't really mind if the ads were for Yahoo and whatnot but there are also ads for Freeze.com which is a 100% ad-ware site. I wonder who the stupid fuck over at Digsby was that wanted to use that new installer. You can put all those ads in a normal installer.