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theres a file within aim dont remember which one it is but you remove one line from it and it kills all adds.
 
If you have a firewall, you can just look to what websites AIM connects, and block the ad sites.
Works for many programs, probably for AIM too.
Has the advantage that it is 100% legal, because you don't alter the software 😀
 
the problem i have w/ gaim is it gets reallllly slow sometimes. i dunno why.

deadaim is nice, but the audio from the video ads still gets thru.. i may go back to gaim (altho, for multiple login, anything not aim/modified aim screws up the buddy list ordering.. grr)
 
Originally posted by: lnguyen
the problem i have w/ gaim is it gets reallllly slow sometimes. i dunno why.

deadaim is nice, but the audio from the video ads still gets thru.. i may go back to gaim (altho, for multiple login, anything not aim/modified aim screws up the buddy list ordering.. grr)
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Gaim gets slow for you? Never had a problem with it personally.
 
All the deadAIM 3.2.8 downloads I downloaded are installed as the 3.2.1 version, and the video and sound ads still get through. Grrr...
 
i was fine with ads until the voice ads hit.

On Autotrader.com, which I am paying for to sell with so shouldn't have ads, has a popup full screen browser window with all controls turned off....you can't even alt-f4 it...tells you to hold enter down 10 seconds to see a 'neat trick'. Yeah right.

I would call them to bitch, but somehow my at&t cell phone died this weekend and my landline can only do dsl right now
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.... bellsouth is having problems today...still I am going to have to buy a new phone to rule out my old one.

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don't know if this will block audio ads, but give it a try...

to block this stuff, go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
open the HOSTS file in notepad and add this:

127.0.0.1 ar.atwola.com
127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com
127.0.0.1 VTOT.proxy.aol.com
127.0.0.1 ads.aol.com
127.0.0.1 www.empiremovies.com
127.0.0.1 xlonhcld.xlontech.net

this should keep aol ads from connectging to PC.



.//chris
 
there are software out there that can run and it will remove the ad. crab. That voice ad was creaming me out one night. Had volume on loud, was sitting quietly late at night and decided to see if any of my buddy is online. That was freaky. So I did a search for things to kill the ad. No more ad now on AIM at home.

AIM chat room, O my god!!! It's full of bots wanting to have s*x with eachother. And there're in all the chat rooms. Some smart one even do an IM to you personally too. LOL Yahoo chat have an option that it will automatically block that user if it send the same crab a couple of times.
 
this doesn't seem to remove the ads just stops them from being seen. I still heard the video ads.
 
That talking AD is so freakin annoying! I did the ad removal thing at the top of the thread and it worked -- it got rid of the rectangular ad at the top of my buddy list. But I still hear that annoying sound AD every so often. Does anyone know a way to kill it?
 
Originally posted by: CuriousGeorge
That talking AD is so freakin annoying! I did the ad removal thing at the top of the thread and it worked -- it got rid of the rectangular ad at the top of my buddy list. But I still hear that annoying sound AD every so often. Does anyone know a way to kill it?
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Find your hosts file (not sure if it is win NT/2k/XP thing only or not). Add a line that says 127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com. That makes aim look for the ad server that aol uses on your computer instead of aol's computers so they can't reach it. If you still had the ad box, this makes your ad just be a generic aol logo because there is no connection.
 
Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Originally posted by: CuriousGeorge
That talking AD is so freakin annoying! I did the ad removal thing at the top of the thread and it worked -- it got rid of the rectangular ad at the top of my buddy list. But I still hear that annoying sound AD every so often. Does anyone know a way to kill it?
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Find your hosts file (not sure if it is win NT/2k/XP thing only or not). Add a line that says 127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com. That makes aim look for the ad server that aol uses on your computer instead of aol's computers so they can't reach it. If you still had the ad box, this makes your ad just be a generic aol logo because there is no connection.
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Does any of this work with Win98SE? There is no Hosts file in the above directory...what is the Win98 equivalent (if any?)
 
Originally posted by: Bonesdad
Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Originally posted by: CuriousGeorge
That talking AD is so freakin annoying! I did the ad removal thing at the top of the thread and it worked -- it got rid of the rectangular ad at the top of my buddy list. But I still hear that annoying sound AD every so often. Does anyone know a way to kill it?
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Find your hosts file (not sure if it is win NT/2k/XP thing only or not). Add a line that says 127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com. That makes aim look for the ad server that aol uses on your computer instead of aol's computers so they can't reach it. If you still had the ad box, this makes your ad just be a generic aol logo because there is no connection.
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Does any of this work with Win98SE? There is no Hosts file in the above directory...what is the Win98 equivalent (if any?)
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/win98/reskit/part7/wrkappf.asp
 
Originally posted by: TekDemon
the ads in aim haven't been that annoying to me...I've never encountered any video ads so far myself in aim.

However, if you care, there's an ad-free and very sleek and powerful version of aim express if you just go to aol.com and hit aol instant messenger on the main page...

I think I accidentally found it once, and it locked on the machine I was using it on(was a school machine and it might have been just an issue with that machine) but looked awesome, and then the next time I only found the older aim express which stinks and I got all confused.

But now I realize there's two versions...one which is basically the embedded instant messenging system inside of AOL 9.0(or at least looks aesthetically the same), and one which is the old school cruddy one =P

The more powerful one can do pretty much anything the IM system in AOL 9.0 can other than the superbuddy icons and similar stuff...it pretty much replaces AIM if you want to!

At any rate you should give it a shot anyway...it looks very cool
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wow. that is amazing. it does work
at first i thought it just launched regular aim (cause i have it installed). but it didn't! and it uses tabbed windows and stuff. thanks
 
I'm using aimutation 1.1 and highly reccomend it. It's $4 for then next 4 versions, but it removes all adds, lets you skin AIM, provides logging, provides alot of color customizations, with a free plugin gives you all the 2000+ smilies (very scary!), and pretty much everything else dead aim offers. there's a 15 day trial at www.545studios.com (requires registration, but definately worth it)
 
I just downloaded the latest Gaim and it seems to work well. Yahoo,Msn,Aim,Icq, all linked up and no ads of course. I haven't tried any of the plug-ins. When connecting to Yahoo though I first has to log in on the regular client and the Gaim then logged in, bumping me out of the regular yahoo client. A bug or something in my config, I suppose. Free is good!
 
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