All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we’ll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx

— AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017

Michael Albers, VP of Communications Product at Oath — the Verizon subsidiary which owns both AOL and Yahoo — said in a Tumblr post that he understands how important AIM was to many people:

You likely remember the CD, your first screenname, your carefully curated away messages, and how you organized your buddy lists. Right now you might be reminiscing about how you had to compete for time on the home computer in order to chat with friends outside of school … In the late 1990’s, the world had never seen anything like it. And it captivated all of us.

I’m not sure how many people will mourn AIM’s loss on a practical level — I haven’t even heard of anyone using it in the last few years, which isn’t surprising given how many more sophisticated alternatives are available. That’s not a dig at the company, for the record: I actually still have my old AOL email address (it was my first, and I’m sentimental).

Whatever its value, or lack thereof, on a modern internet, it’ll be sad to see a piece of Internet history go after 20 years. The service officially shutters on December 15, 2017.

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Source: The nextweb

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Firefox displays nine boxes or “tiles” showing screenshots of the websites visited most often by the user.

Many users were concerned about Mozilla’s plan announced earlier this year to add advertising to the boxes.

But the firm has assured users it is not going to turn Firefox “into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder”.

Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox, said in a blog post that many users had found the language of the initial announcement “hard to decipher” and were worried they would have no control over their browser.

“That’s not going to happen. That’s not who we are at Mozilla,”

He said the tests were designed to understand what the users find helpful and what parts they ignore or disable on the browser.

“These tests are not about revenue and none will be collected. Sponsorship would be the next stage once we are confident that we can deliver user value.”

The company had previously assured users that while it will use information about their location to provide content relevant to them, no other user information would be “collected or considered”.

Source: BBC

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