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Is there anything you can do about the “Action Canceled” errors that pop from from using “http://noads.html”??
EDIT: This is a better registry method to use…
Code:[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareyahoopagerYUrl]
“First Login Beacon”=”http://pclick.internal.yahoo.com/p/s=97416787/lng=us/rand=%d”
“Tutorials”=”http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/ms8/index.html”
“Plug-in Gallery”=”http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger”
“Finance Disclaimer”=”http://msg.edit.yahoo.com/config/jlb”
“Chat Adurl”=”*”
“Change Room Banner”=”*”
“Webcam Upload Ad”=”C:\blank.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”C:\blank.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”C:\blank.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Bid”=”C:\blank.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”C:\blank.html”
“Chat Transition Ad”=”*”
“Conf Adurl”=”*”
“Calendar Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“IMVironment Ad URL”=”*”
“Mail Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Personals Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“News Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Auction Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Login Mobile Ad”=”*”
“N2Phone Adurl”=”*”
“Stock Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Messenger Ad”=”*”If you use “http://noads.html” then you might encounter Action Canceled errors.
You are getting the error because the http://noads.html is not valid, and will end up telling to the page cannot be displayed.
The blank window? everything down under the Plug-in button is in a SlotsWnd, inside it the plug-ins and the ad window are Internet Explorer_Server class, when Y!M receives a .html for the slot it starts drawing the rectangle for IE and waits for the content script, whatever inside the little rectangle is handled by IE, in some cases IE shows error page with V and H scroll bar.
Well, my actual purpose was to provide working .exe. As for the registry file – you may edit it the way you want it to be. As for me – I’ve never faced ANY problems with it in ANY version of YIM. Only key in which “noads” is truly needed is “Webcam ad big”. for all the other keys you may use evverything you want. However, if you would use an asterisk next to “Webcam ad big”, you webcam will be connecting to server longer, and you may expereince freezes while video conference. That’s a fact. As for the other keys – modify them to match your needs best, but I’ve never experienced any kinds of problems with my registry file.
And I truly wonder why am I the only one who doesn’t get “Action Cancelled” messages.Personally, using an asterisk on all of them except the 5 webcam keys (where a local blank html file should be used) seems like the best way to block those ads via the registry.
Now, all we have to do now is find a way to block the chat transition ad, or, find a way to surpass it completely. Which I’ll be researching all day tomorrow.
P.S. Tim, there seems to be a small bug with your patch, where it automatically parses the location of Yahoo’s install directory like this…
Code:C: [HARD_DRIVE]Program FilesYahoo!MessengerYahooMessenger.exeWhich, also adds the name of the drive, and it makes installation fail unless you remove the drive name from the location.
Whats the offset change for 8.0.0711?
Tim, perhaps use a combo box with a drop down of C, D, E, F, G before textbox
of the directory.
I tried your patch and the top check just says “Check 5”
And once applied it says “Error no changes were made”
Since i use a HP it says [HP Pavilion] but i browsed for the exe
it still fails to make any changes.
i havent really messed about with this 711 build at all.
Point the mouse to the top or bottom bar of the news window will continuously scroll the list up or down, move the mouse back to center of window to stop, item is highlighted, click to open news item in side window.
Sometimes it doesn’t work because the plug-in script is not fully downloaded or corrupted. Stop and restart the plug-in to force redownload.
kingofchaos6669 wrote:
Quote:Now, all we have to do now is find a way to block the chat transition ad, or, find a way to surpass it completely. Which I’ll be researching all day tomorrow.Killing Messenger’s ads is actually incredibly easy to do (including the chat transition ad). To kill most of them (or all depending on your messenger version) you don’t even need a program to do it for you, registry edits or any programming experience at all. If you’ve ever sniffed traffic (network packets) you’ll notice that these ads have DNS lookup requests sent out before the actual TCP (HTTP) connections are even made to download and display their content (flash, html etc). The “key” here is to tell your operating system that when a DNS lookup is to be performed to first look inside your HOSTS file (a text file for DNS name to IP address static mappings).
On XP and Windows 2K3 your HOSTS file is located under WINDOWSsystem32driversetc. For 2K and 95/98/ME the location is different. For 2K it’s under WINNTsystem32driversetc and for the 9x OSs it’s in your Windows directory.
Once you’ve located your HOSTS file you need to open it for editing (notepad will do or wordpad). Once it’s open you will want to add a new line to it that would look like this: “0.0.0.0 chat.yahoo.com” from left to right. This tells Windows that before a DNS lookup is made for “chat.yahoo.com” to first check and see if there’s a static mapping of it’s name to an ip address (it wouldn’t need to be resolved if the ip is already supplied). Once Windows finds the ip address it’ll return it to the requesting application (in this case Messenger) and Messenger will see that the ip address is no good (not routable). Messenger then can’t make the appropriate HTTP connections to download the ad content and you will be able to get by without seeing the major ones.
This method will kill off the chat transition ad, the chat room ad at the bottom of the chat screen and when you open your Join Chat room window it’ll kill off the content to the left from being downloaded and displaying. Depending on whether you’re using this method in version 6.0, 7-7.5 or 8.0 you’ll get different results (now that 8.0 carries an ad in the buddy list window which this doesn’t affect). Using registry edits in combination with this method would be sure to get the smaller ads (webcam viewer ad and/or the 8.0 buddy list window ad) that are still present after.
*Side effects of editing your HOSTS file to do this:
– Each time you sign into Messenger the first attempt or 2 to join a room will fail (nothing will happen). After you’ve attempted a couple times (may only take one time) you should be able to get into the room and any rooms thereafter first try.
– http://chat.yahoo.com in your browser will become unavailable while that line is in your HOSTS file. This won’t negatively affect third party chat clients like YahElite for using Chat 2 or YMSG. If you absolutely need to use chat.yahoo.com’s DHTML Chat 2 for chatting instead of completely removing that line from your HOSTS file simply comment it out (by using the pound sign # before the line starts) and that website will be available for you to visit again. When you’re done uncomment the line and save the file again so you won’t see the ads again in Messenger afterwards.
– I’ve tested this on Messenger version 5.6 and it’s had negative effects, do not use it on versions below 6.0.
Quote:I wouldn’t suggest using HOSTS file tricks.Actually, it’s perfectly safe to use and is actually recommended by LOTS of different resources on the net. In fact it’s safer than using a “hacked/modified” executable or program to accomplish the ad-killing for you. Wikipedia, for example, documents it’s effective use for ad-blocking since it’s commonly used for this purpose:
Quote:Ad filteringOne use of the hosts file is ad filtering. This is accomplished by adding a line to the file that maps an ad server’s hostname to an address that will not satisfy the browser’s request for the ad. Since no additional programs are necessary to do this, hosts file based ad-blocking has a near-zero memory and CPU footprint, as well as requiring no loading time. The hostname for an advertiser may be obtained by right-clicking on the banner or advertisement, then clicking properties from the context menu. This will indicate the full URL, of which the part between the double slash and first single slash represent the hostname.
The two most common addresses used for this purpose are the ‘null’ address Default PLESK Page (which may simply be written as a single ‘0’) and the ‘loopback’ address Default PLESK Page. The distinction between the two is that 0.0.0.0 is an invalid destination address[1], so no connection can be established. If a name is mapped to the loopback address 127.0.0.1, any connections to the “blocked” domain will be mapped to the originating machine. If it is running a Web server, that Web server may attempt to handle the request. The ad-blocking technique may include a local web server that provides substitute images rather than 404 error messages [2], which would require the use of 127.0.0.1.
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