{"id":781,"date":"2015-07-21T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-07-30T18:50:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T01:50:39","slug":"ads-in-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/ads-in-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads In Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all. While I am not an active user of Skype, one thing that has always somewhat bothered me about it&#8217;s recent use is advertisements in the application itself. While ads in general don&#8217;t really bother me, but when it impacts an experience or you\u00a0hate ads\u00a0and\u00a0you just simply want them gone &#8211; here is a way to do that.<\/p>\n<p>In Control Panel, head to Internet Options, Security tab. Click Restricted Sites and add https:\/\/apps.skype.com\/ . This will block the ads from the application, but will leave a placeholder there in place. To remove this,\u00a0head to file explorer and browse to\u00a0C:\\users\\youruser\\AppData\\Roaming\\Skype\\yourskypeuser\\config.xml .\u00a0Open this in a text editor, find the line\u00a0AdvertPlaceholder&gt;1&lt;\/AdvertPlaceholder&gt; and delete it!<\/p>\n<p>This is how you block ads in Skype and remove the placeholder for it as well!<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all. While I am not an active user of Skype, one thing that has always somewhat bothered me about it&#8217;s recent use is advertisements in the application itself. While ads in general don&#8217;t really bother me, but when it impacts an experience or you\u00a0hate ads\u00a0and\u00a0you just simply want them gone &#8211; here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[90,81],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-techno","tag-skype","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}