irritating skype ads, anysolutions that actually work?

[treos]

*clicks x to show ad is NOT relevant to me* yeah, THANKS!, microsoft, for MORE ads that NO ONE wants. granted i haven't been all that active on skype in a while, i just checked it to see what this latest update changed and boom, click the home button and my contacts are still a column on the left side as they should be but whats that on the right? why its a giant eyesore of an ad taking up a sizable chunk of screen space. wtf, microsoft? stop making skype WORSE. its like how google continually adds unneeded and unwanted features to make youtube harder to use and crappier (i found a solution to your evil auto quality adjust feature you idiots).

i'm fine with small banner ads, always have been but not a large ad thats like 4x4 inches wide/tall. after looking around a bit i found some solutions but in the end they never really work so i think i'll ask here since you guys have been fairly reliable with helping me on past computer issues. is there any way to block these ads and KEEP them blocked?

http://imgur.com/35iZCRd

note the big empty space in the pic with the text. also note: microsoft, ads don't improve ANYTHING, they WORSEN things.

[Warrior]

Alternatives

Toxy or Pidgin using XMPP protocol with OTR plugin.

Microsoft knows peerblock/adblock plus/etc. all too well hence why you aint killing the ads anymore, skype sucks anyway, any alternative is far better.

[gezegond]

I'm using skype through a pidgin plug-in. I have access to all my skype contacts without ever seeing a single ad. Go PC.

Edit: For your convenience here's pidgin, and here's the skype plugin.

[Warrior]

geze, that plugin requires skype to be installed and on in order to use it.

Kinda defeats the purpose of looking for a solution/alternative.

I tried it years ago, its not worth the hassle.

Tox is just like Skype minus the bullcocky/ads/SPYING ON YOUR ACTIVITY.

Tox is encrypted and open source, Tox is just the core, it has a various GUIs, https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

I personally like qTox GUI.

[gezegond]

It does get rid of the ads, and that is specifically what the op is asking for. Alternatives are nice and all, but when it comes to messaging, popularity plays a big role. I have many skype contacts who I need to be in touch with. Moving to something that is not skype means losing contact with them as they will be staying on skype. (obviously. duh?)

[Warrior]

Well in a way you are off topic as well geze, the only method to getting rid of the ads is to downgrade skype BUT if you do that you will be hounded to update and if you exit skype or restart windows you will be greeted by the auto updated ad filled skype and you have NO way to turn auto update off.

Kinda why I mentioned the better alternatives, none of that bullcocky.

BTW the skype through pidgin method is very flawed (very out of date too) and if treos wants to try and and see how annoying it truly is feel free

[gezegond]

I'm using it right now, with the latest version of skype, I'm not seeing ads, and its working fine.

[MaslowK]

microsoft, ads don't improve ANYTHING

They pay for the service you're otherwise being provided free of charge: you get what you pay (or don't) for.

i found a solution to your evil auto quality adjust feature

Scripts that detect connection speeds; literally Hitler!

More on topic tho,

if you exit skype or restart windows you will be greeted by the auto updated ad filled skype and you have NO way to turn auto update off.

I don't use skype so can't test it myself, but I was able to find this on skype's support section; https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA1...indows-desktop. OP could try that maybe?