The thing that really makes this a bad development is imagination. Someone looking at your traffic wont know why you are looking at what you are looking at. I could be part of the LAPD bomb squad, and want to look up how people make pipe bombs or other IEDs. People make whatever conjecture their minds choose for them, and often times their minds choose the worst.

I use Adium www.adiumx.com and those were not auto added, nor have I herd of anything about it. I'm sure that 3rd party programs such as Adium, Gaim and such don't have these issues as they are not directly connected with AOL. Adium FTW!!!