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No one is saying your method of blocking the ads are wrong. He was just saying in his opinion he would not suggest using your method. Yes I am sure there are people that would rather use the method that you have stated, but you also have to remember not everyone on the internet wants to use that type of method. It takes a little work to do, and as you said, it will block anything coming from chat.yahoo.com and if you want to again gain access you have to go back to modify it. Most people don’t care how something works, they just care that it works and works the way they want it to. Also they want something that is easy to use, something they don’t have to keep changing over and over. They don’t want to have to take time to set this up then set that up, change this, and change that. The patch that I made was so that people didn’t have to download a modified 4.4 mb ( 1.5 mb is compressed ) Application or from them having to use a hex editor to do it. I also give the option to undo the changes that the patch makes taking the messenger back to its original state. In the end it all comes down to the users now having a choice in which method they wish to use. And everyone likes being able to have the choice in doing something in different ways compared to only having one way of doing it. The fact still remains that you have stated that your method does not remove the main messenger window ad from the messenger. Where as my patch allows you to do just that, and also the option to place the ad back in. The people that come and read this thread can choose which method that want to use, that best suites them, but the main thing is they have a choice. Thats all that really matters is it not ?
Quote:The fact still remains that you have stated that your method does not remove the main messenger window ad from the messenger.Yes, it doesn’t remove this small ad and it will be seen with Messenger versions 7.5 and 8.0 but this ad is not present in 6.0, the 7.0 builds and the 7.02 build. Killing that ad isn’t hard to do through the HOSTS file either it simply doesn’t get killed with the chat.yahoo.com line. That ad too can be killed if you add a separate line “0.0.0.0 messenger.yahoo.com” and it won’t be loaded but the side effect is that messenger.yahoo.com becomes unavailable and it can effect the plug-ins manager (if anybody uses it in 8.0). This is why I said that the chat.yahoo.com line is safe because it kills the most annoying ads while at the same time it doesn’t prevent certain functionality from working properly.
The point of my post was not to argue which way was better but the fact that you don’t need a program at all to kill ads in Messenger or even in most applications as long as they fetch the content dynamically through DNS lookup requests. Programmatically this can be done easily, yes. I’ve removed every ad in Messenger in a Y!Tunnel-like application we’ve created that will have a free version available to the public within weeks. A pay-for commercial version will also be available with lots of features. It’s currently in private beta testing.
Ahh, yes, finally some competition for Y!Tunnel. 🙂 Good luck on that man, and keep us updated.
Tim, is it possible to add extra features to the patch? Like I can get you the offsets/changes to readd Show Nicknames, and a trick to disable the chat word filter that seems to be broken (and always on) in Yahoo 7.5 and up. 😉
The show/hide nicknames would have to be add to the res_msgr.dll but yes
that can be done but not by the changing any Offset in the YahooMessenger.exeAs for the Word Filter, you can change that easily on your own.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahoopagerprofiles”YahooID”Chat
You will see a Entry named WordFilter
Change its Value to 0
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Quote:The best way to disable this is deleting everything in filter1.encYes there is that too, I usually do that anyway on installing Yahoo Messenger.
But, it always stays on regardless of what setting you use.
The best way to disable this is deleting everything in filter1.enc in Yahoo’s directory.
kingofchaos6669;207148 wrote:Has anyone else noticed that the emoticon limit in this version has been upped from 6 to 15?Ooo, that’s nice. I hadn’t noticed this and apparently it’s been there for a while now because i’m on version 8,0,0,683 and it allows 15 also.
But thanks for pointing it out. *gives you +rep*
Hi everyone:
stumbled across this forum on Google, my first posting regarding the former YPager.exe. [still prefer that 8.3 style name (sic)] Digested all 4 pages of messages here with interest. Just upgraded to Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.0.716. It seems to have fixed the plug-ins occasionally crashing with all the enabled plug-in frames collapsed. Already had the registry values at [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahooPagerYUrl] set to *, and “Messenger Ad”=”*” or “about:blank”.
I have a less than elegant workaround to the the 234×60 ‘ad’ space in the bottom, and was wondering whether anyone had a better solution than just hex editing or binary patching. As a female former mainframe programmer :o, have looked at too many gigabyte hex files to want to get my nicely manicured nails dirty again)Even with AdMuncher replace blocking the retrieval of “http://messenger.yahoo.com/external/client_ad.php?p=409640”, it still shows an annoying blank 234×60 area. Even tried replacing the code within the javascript, but the area still gets painted. Any ideas? as you can see I try to squeeze everything in the least amount of space, and would like the ad area to be 234×1.
Thanks so much in advance for the input. Keep up the extra geek work to foil adware (sic).
JustMe22;207336 wrote:Hi everyone:
stumbled across this forum on Google, my first posting regarding the former YPager.exe. [still prefer that 8.3 style name (sic)] Digested all 4 pages of messages here with interest. Just upgraded to Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.0.716. It seems to have fixed the plug-ins occasionally crashing with all the enabled plug-in frames collapsed. Already had the registry values at [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahooPagerYUrl] set to *, and “Messenger Ad”=”*” or “about:blank”.
I have a less than elegant workaround to the the 234×60 ‘ad’ space in the bottom, and was wondering whether anyone had a better solution than just hex editing or binary patching. As a female former mainframe programmer :o, have looked at too many gigabyte hex files to want to get my nicely manicured nails dirty again)Even with AdMuncher replace blocking the retrieval of “http://messenger.yahoo.com/external/client_ad.php?p=409640”, it still shows an annoying blank 234×60 area. Even tried replacing the code within the javascript, but the area still gets painted. Any ideas? as you can see I try to squeeze everything in the least amount of space, and would like the ad area to be 234×1.
Thanks so much in advance for the input. Keep up the extra geek work to foil adware (sic).
Just for a heads up, this user solved her problem here on this thread.
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