AOL has put in more anti-Trillian countermeasures. Latest news is that a fix has been implemented and a new version of Trillian is forthcoming. (For those not familiar with the Trillian vs. AIM saga, see the story at CNET News.com.)

I think I would be willing to put up with ads if it would make AOL happy with Trillian. I mean, prior to Trillian the ads never bothered me much; my two main motivations for using Trillian are:

1. Using one IM client instead of four (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN).
2. It’s not ICQ. ICQ is the most bug-ridden, poorly-designed piece of bloatware I’ve ever used (second only maybe to Lotus Notes). Unfortunately it’s what most of my friends use so I have to connect to it.