What is the ruling on creating a website to ascertain the status of Yahoo Messenger contacts (online/offline/invisible), which displays their profile picture, knowing that it can be used to view illicit profiles and to earn money from advertisements (including Google ads), despite attempts to prevent the illicit ones?
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Using this program is not permissible, due to its access to people's private information, its identification of callers, its tracking and spying on their vulnerabilities, and its display of impermissible advertisements that cannot be controlled.
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