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Block or Remove Ads: Yahoo Messenger ANY VERSION

Thu Jun 4, 2009, 2:21 PM
I just discovered the safest and effective way to block Yahoo Messenger Ads for ANY VERSION. UPDATE: This still works for version 9.0.02162!

- NO need to edit the registry.
- NO need for EXE Patches that has Trojans.
- ALL YOU NEED is Notepad.


Block Ads By Blocking the Ad Server:

1. Open Notepad.
(In Vista/Win7, Run Notepad as an Administrator)

2. Open the following file:
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

3. Add the following line at the end of the text file:

127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com



What to do if Yahoo Changes Their Ad Server

I tested this since Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.922 BETA. It worked.

This is because all ads come from "http://insider.msg.yahoo.com", which is the Ad Server.

Now, when you notice the ads coming back, it means Yahoo changed their Ad Server. To block them again:

1. Explore C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\

2. Open urls.xml

3. Internet Explorer will display the XML file.
From there you can see lines similar to these:

href=\"http://insider.msg.yahoo.com/client_ad.php?p=409640\" id="Messenger Ad"
href=\"http://insider.msg.yahoo.com/client_ad.php?p=81920\" id="Messenger Idle Ad"

In this case, the Ad Server Address is "insider.msg.yahoo.com"
If it's not, copy the new Ad Server Address,
and update the "hosts" file.

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:iconhallymaster:
Mood: Optimism ~HallyMaster Sep 30, 2008, 12:42:00 AM
Blocking insider from the hosts file works good, but it blocks the emoticons.

I've tryied another solution (supposing you have NTFS!):
- edit C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml to remove only the contents pointing to URLs (i.e. what's between "") for the signature and ads entries; save the changes;
- set the permissions for that file in such a way that it gets read, but not written, by any user [the old approach of setting read-only for the file doesn't work because Yahoo Messenger reverts the attribute].

In this way you have blocked the ads, but not touched the emoticons ;)

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:iconhallymaster:
Mood: Lazy ~HallyMaster Oct 1, 2008, 2:44:35 AM
You're welcome. :bow:

Edit for my previous post: while I've written "emoticons", I was actually referring to the _audibles_, not the _emoticons_... :D

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:iconbenrauf:
Mood: Joy ~benrauf Jan 15, 2009, 4:33:16 AM
This is really brilliant bro! I'd try your advice and its work. Thanks a lot for your assistance.

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~thenonhacker Jan 15, 2009, 4:03:54 PM
Glad to be of help! Blocking those ads will also improve your Internet connection speed.

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~benrauf Jan 19, 2009, 1:44:09 AM
once again..thanks :)
freedom from ads :lol:

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Mood: Wow! ~imtooler59 Mar 13, 2009, 3:50:02 AM
great job, it worked excellant until very recently, yahoo has found a different way to deliver the ads and your fix doesn't work anymore, Have you seen this? any ideas on this one?
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~thenonhacker Mar 14, 2009, 6:40:27 AM
I am still using Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.1389
OMG now that you told me they got around my Ad Blocking, I don't want to upgrade XD

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~kourosh3700 Aug 10, 2009, 8:15:09 AM
It is still working for me. Maybe something has changed on your system or they have changed the URL for your area. I'm in Ireland and I had to put a "uk." before the URL.
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