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Pyenb / Outlook-desktop-ad-blocker

A simple script that patches your systems hosts file to stop the Outlook desktop client from displaying ads in your inbox.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Ads came back #2

Open Kuro-23 opened 1 month ago

Kuro-23 commented 1 month ago

Today I got the ads even with 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com applied in the hosts file. Maybe microsoft changed the url?

Pyenb commented 1 month ago

Hm, could be. I will take a look at this when I have time. I switched to Thunderbird in the meantime, but I still have outlook installed, so should be no problem 👍

ABucket commented 1 month ago

new ad url: https://m.adnxs.com/ut/v3 block this

Kuro-23 commented 1 month ago

It's working great. thx!

7ergei commented 1 month ago

new ad url: https://m.adnxs.com/ut/v3 block this

Hi, can you please explain how to use this?

Pyenb commented 1 month ago

I updated the script. @ABucket Thank you for the input. Do you know if I'll still need to block both domains or only that one? I don't really have the time currently to check.

7ergei commented 1 month ago

Installed new script and it works, thanks @Pyenb !

ABucket commented 1 month ago

I updated the script. @ABucket Thank you for the input. Do you know if I'll still need to block both domains or only that one? I don't really have the time currently to check.

Only that one, there's another domain https://www.bing.com/api/v1/mediation/clientauction that also contains the ads, but seems like blocking that one is enough

Pyenb commented 1 month ago

Ah ok, thanks. As long as it's one the single one it's relatively easy. But with host files you can only block the domain as a whole, so to block https://www.bing.com/api/v1/mediation/clientauction, you would need to block the entire bing.com domain. But as long as it's only the subdomain for now, it won't be a problem.

Primexus commented 1 month ago

Here's what it should look like if you wish to do it manually.

0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com
0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com
Kuro-23 commented 3 weeks ago

I have those 2 in the host file: 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com but now I get microsoft outlook own ad... "Upgrade your account to premium" or something mine is in Italian.

simpledimples commented 3 weeks ago

I also have these 2 in the host file: 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com

but getting "Upgrade your account" ads image

EDIT: https://github.com/valinet/NewOutlookPatcher works, no ads and not even any placeholder blank space where the ads were - just straight to the emails

Pyenb commented 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it's a good repo. While being more intrusive, it really removes everything. I will still have a look if I can remove the new ads