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		DangerousPie on April 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICQ New Note: "remains widely popular" was already arguable when that story was written in 2010 and is definitely not true in 2020.

dvirsky on April 9, 2020 | [–]

At least in Israel no one was using it after ~2005 or so.

mike_d on April 9, 2020 | [–]

(Legacy) ICQ has widespread adoption in the criminal underground. If you were a security service it probably had the highest signal to noise ratio of any network.

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