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Xeroday / Spotify-Ad-Blocker

EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
https://www.ericzhang.me/projects/spotify-ad-blocker-ezblocker/
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Uninstall EZBlocker #182

Closed martonlente closed 5 years ago

martonlente commented 5 years ago

Hello,

EZBlocker doesn't come with an installer, but works after running the file. Interestingly, though my Spotify keeps not playing ads after removing the file from my computer – like if EZBlocker were still present behind the scenes. Is there a way to actually force uninstall EZBlocker? If so, how?

Note: I don't see EZBlocker on my taskbar, neither in Task Manager. My EZBlocker was set to start with Windows. I'm on Windows 10. I'm using the Spotify UWP app (which I've also tried resetting).

Thank you in advance, Márton Lente

FireEmerald commented 5 years ago

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

https://github.com/Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker/blob/88acf24684c1b260f6715d2de2be87bd15412029/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs#L27

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

martonlente commented 5 years ago

Thanks @FireEmerald, it perfectly worked.

yassin97 commented 5 years ago

I faced a problem that some songs didn't play with me, because of EZBlocker, @FireEmerald the problem is not those lines you've mentioned before, the problem is in this line spclient.wg.spotify.com, if you want to solve that problem just make sure that line is starting with # symbol, hope this will help, thank you.

Masterface1 commented 5 years ago

Hi, I dont have the permissions to change it how do i get those??? i can open it as a administrator.

yassin97 commented 5 years ago

Hi @Masterface1 , make a copy, change it, then replace it in the folder as an administrator.

WorldofLoina commented 5 years ago

Just want to earmark this for anyone suffering from spotify not being able to stream songs and only showing local files, if you're using ezblocker @FireEmerald's solution solved it for me.

naydenjguyen2102 commented 3 years ago

for some reason i cant see anything about spotify when I open %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts plz help

kissthedoc commented 3 years ago

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

https://github.com/Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker/blob/88acf24684c1b260f6715d2de2be87bd15412029/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs#L27

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply

yee-bit commented 2 years ago

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls: https://github.com/Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker/blob/88acf24684c1b260f6715d2de2be87bd15412029/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs#L27

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply

Yeah same, I haven't had any luck finding anything about spotify on the text editor.

kissthedoc commented 2 years ago

Hmm I guess I should just format the computer ?

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, 14:23 yee-bit, @.***> wrote:

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

https://github.com/Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker/blob/88acf24684c1b260f6715d2de2be87bd15412029/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs#L27

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply

Yeah same, I haven't had any luck finding anything about spotify on the text editor.

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