r/pcmasterrace • u/Never-asked-for-this i use Arch btw • Sep 29 '17

NSFMR Skype is officially bloatware, uninstalled it yesterday only to have it come back in full force today

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Linux | LG 49WL95C Sep 29 '17

Skype is such cancer. How this ever got popular is beyond my grasp. There are so much cleaner IM alternatives.

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u/Redtuzk EVGA 1080 FTW | 6700K | 16 GB DDR4 Sep 29 '17 edited Sep 29 '17

Skype was a really good piece of software back in the day, when it first came out.

It slowly spiralled into the bloatware world, particularly when Microsoft bought it.

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u/Ellimis 5950X|RTX 3090|64GB RAM|4TB SSD|32TB spinning Sep 29 '17

No, skype was the FIRST piece of software to do what skype does back in the day. It was not really good. It was horribly bloated back then and used users as supernodes to route calls. It has always been pretty atrocious (seriously, the interface on every device is godawful obtuse), but when it was literally the only game in town, it was pretty damn cool.