Spotify Ad Blocking With Ad Muncher
Posted by MFSiNC on June 8, 2009
Blocking most ads in Spotify
- Download and install Ad Muncher
- Set it up like the screenshots below:
This will block all the Flash-based ads and most of the image ads
The only way i know to bypass the audio ads is to mute the Wave Output of the sound card till the ad has passed, or to close and re-open the program.
bondy said
it doesnt work. I was until recently add free with only using Kaspersky 2010 with their anti-banner but it doesnt work. Eventhoug i blocked all access to *spotify*
I am also using ad-muncher together now but it doesnt work, maybe 10% is getting blocked.
Any news? Or ideas
MFSiNC said
@1
Sorry, i don’t know any other ways :(
I have mostly been using Winamp to play my entire music collection from the beginning again, and haven’t looked into Spotify for a while.
... said
Sorry if this is horribly wrong but…
Could the extra adds we are recieving come from new URLs which spotify is using to show adds? If this is the case, then we need to keep updating the sites that Ad muncher blocks…
If this isn’t the case, we know that the ads are blocked by having a pay-per-month account, then could someone identify what spotify changes when an enabled per-pay-month account is activated.
Also is there something in the HTML file which could be changed to make it think all accounts are activated? I doubt a huge company would be stupid enough to do that, but ever since limewire pro was available off normal limewire, I have never tried to overestimate the intelligence of some software designers etc…
MFSiNC said
@3
You could check with Wireshark to see where it connects to retrieve the ads. I can’t do it as i’m far to busy at the moment.
About the pay accounts, there is probably a function in the program to check if the account is free or pay, then display ads or not.
HTML? i think most of the ads are Flash, and some others PNG or JPG. Although they could be displayed in a iframe.
About Limewire, i remember doing just that a long time ago :D