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uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions
zherok:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on August 26, 2012, 01:06:30 AM ---Filehippo.
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The point wasn't that finding it was hard, it was that disabling the features that bother people so much take even less time than finding an old copy.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: zherok on August 26, 2012, 12:35:56 AM ---Considering the bother it takes to track down an older version (minor though it may be) is still more than it takes to turn off both the ad and the apps feature, I'm not really sure if people have actually used the new versions or they simply hear what other people have to say about them third hand.
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I did not have to track down 2.2.1 or 1.8.5 - I downloaded them when they were new and still have the files (and even 1.6.x somewhere). I am simply not upgrading, because there aren't a lot of reasons to upgrade.
limefc:
--- Quote ---uTorrent 2.2.1 on my server uses ~1.3GB of RAM.
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Heh, I have my 3.1.3 hovering at about 500MB. On a gaming system though, so I ain't got the same kind of RAM to spare. Mostly write cache too, rather than read cache.
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: zherok on August 26, 2012, 02:43:14 AM ---The point wasn't that finding it was hard, it was that disabling the features that bother people so much take even less time than finding an old copy.
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My point was that I would find and old version blindly in mere seconds.
Installing over is also less effort, naturally.
zherok:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on August 26, 2012, 03:17:41 AM ---My point was that I would find and old version blindly in mere seconds.
Installing over is also less effort, naturally.
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I don't really know what you're arguing about here. It takes mere seconds to disable both the plus ad and the apps feature. That's why I compared them. I wasn't trying to make it sound like some arduous chore to find a copy (I said it was a minor effort two posts ago), but that for whatever effort it took, you could easily have had the current version looking almost identical to the whatever older version you're using.
The plus ad is disabled by a toggle in the advanced features. The apps feature, which doesn't load anything if you don't add any apps, can be right clicked and disabled from there. So far as I've observed, these choices carry over from upgrades deployed from within uTorrent.
And you're free to check, screenshots from around 1.8.5 and the current 3.1.3 differ very little once those two things are turned off. It's pretty much down to icons.
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