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November 5, 2009 at 1:13 am #154837StephieMember
AIM Ad-hack works to remove the ad on AIM 7, but leaves a black space where the ad was. Is there a way to remove that space?
February 23, 2010 at 10:18 am #154803TheHunterMemberis there ever gonna be an AIM 7.0 version for this?
February 25, 2010 at 12:10 am #154792GandalfMemberYou might give the Professional AIM Client a try. It hasn’t been updated in a long time, and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of AIM 7.0, but there are no adverts!
July 2, 2010 at 12:11 am #154827erpman1ParticipantJon8RFC;211023 wrote:For the buddy list ads:C:Program FilesAIM6servicesimAppveryour_versioncontentblaolBuddyListAd.js
Open up this file in notepad, hit ctrl+f, and search for adcontainer. The first result is the one you want to change–change collapsed=false to collapsed=true.
Save and close the file.C:Program FilesAIM6servicesimAppveryour_versioncontentblbl.js
Open up this file in notepad, hit ctrl+f, and search for (“adContainer”).collapsed = false;. The first, and only, result is the one you want to change–change collapsed = false to collapsed = true.
Save and close the file. Fire up AIM to see if the ads are gone; if not, do the final step below.Those will only work with AIM 6.x versions. They do not apply to AIM 7.x versions as those JS files are no longer there.
Quote:These are mostly for older versions of AIM6 & Triton:
C:Program FilesAIM6servicesimAppveryour_versionresourcesen-USstrings.xml
Open up this file in notepad, hit ctrl+f and search for bl.aimadrotateinterval. Make the four lines look like this:
0
0
0Then search for bl.admagic and remove the numbers to make it look like this:
0
Save and close the file.That’s it for the buddy list!
only the strings.xml file is there in AIM versions from 7.0 to 7.2, Jon8RFC.
AIM version 7.3 and higher no longer contain the strings.xml file as I’ve checked myself. I think now the ads are “embedded” into the latest AIM program, much like it was with AIM version 5.9 and earlier.
So those tips to remove ads in AIM 6.0/7.0 no longer work with AIM 7.3 and greater.
July 2, 2010 at 4:34 pm #154839andrebacherParticipantthank you for the information!
August 9, 2015 at 8:27 pm #179451erpman1ParticipantHi. sorry to revive this old topic for 5 years but I recently upgraded to AIM 8.0 and there’s no reliable way to block the annoying ads in AIM 8. Even with that old aim ad hack program failed to do the job of removing ads in AIM8.
I was looking at this topic in this other forum:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskTechnology/comments/2lnp8k/how_do_i_remove_ads_from_aim_8/
but I didn’t seem to find the solution there. -
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