This will open the Internet Properties on your screen. Click on the Network and Internet option. Type Control Panel and select the top option. To make them work, just add –proxy-server command line switch to its chortcut:Įnjoy your ad free Skype! (until Microsoft changes the way ads are displayed)Ĭategory Other by BackTrack. To remove Skype ads, follow the steps given below: Press the Windows + S keys to open the Windows search bar.

NB! Google Chrome and newer Opera browsers use the same Internet Connection settings as IE. To (temporarily) allow access for IE – untick the “Use a proxy server for your LAN” box.

Untick “ Automatically detect settings” box, tick “ Use a proxy server for your LAN” and add a fake IP, like 127.0.0.1.

Go to Control Panel -> internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings.

So, to stop IE from working (and displaying Skype ads): If you use IE browser on a daily basis, this method is not suitable for you. So, to block skype from displaying anything inside an IE iframe it is necessary to block internet access from IE itself.

The error message indicates, that ieframe.dll is being used, so it was obvious that Internet Explorer is being called, from within Skype. This is just absurd – introduce a program crashing ad functonality – shame on you, Microsoft! After skype started to throw the following exception when run, it was obvious ads were the cause of the problem.

Remove ads in skype