Reefa Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Hoping to increase its revenues, BitTorrent Inc. added advertisements to the popular uTorrent client two years ago. What many people don't know though, is that these ads can be disabled by diving into the advanced settings. "Pimp my uTorrent" now comes with a one click solution to make this process less cumbersome. When BitTorrent Inc. announced its plan to add advertising to its flagship uTorrent client a small user revolt broke out.The people complaining were mostly annoyed that there would be no option to disable the ads. Luckily, BitTorrent listened to the feedback and decided that users would indeed get a chance to opt-out from the ads.Despite the initial complaints, nowadays most users probably aren’t aware of the opt-out settings. uTorrent previously reported that it’s serving billions of ads per month, quite a significant number.Even for those users who do know, uTorrent doesn’t make it very easy for them to remove the ads. They will have to mess with the advanced settings, search for the relevant variables, and change them one by one.The developer of the torrent optimized TV-calendar DuckieTV was confronted with this issue a few days ago when he introduced a friend to BitTorrent. After first installing uTorrent, he noticed that the client was littered with ads he disabled himself a long time ago. After manually changing several settings to strip the ads, he came up with the idea to automate the process.“I turned them off for my friend, and decided to try and see if I could automate the process the next day,” Schizoduckie tells TF.For DuckieTV, the developer previously reverse-engineered BitTorrent’s Torque and BtApp.js tools, which are able to talk to uTorrent via the browser. He therefore decided to see if the same code could also be used to change uTorrent’s settings.“I remembered that BitTorrent previously ran an experiment with btApp.js that fiddled with settings, so all I needed to do was hook up the settings functionality in my library and set up a page so users can disable ads in one click,” Schizoduckie says.Fast forward a few hours and “Pimp my uTorrent” was born. Pimp my uTorrent literally requires just one click to disable the ads on Windows clients. There is nothing to install as the page uses JavaScript to communicate with uTorrent.After the “pimping” is done, uTorrent might need to be restarted before the changes are visible. People who are not happy with the result have an option to reverse them with another click.It can’t get much simpler than that.Those who are interested in what the tool does can inspect the relevant variables here. A more detailed overview of all ad related settings and how these can be changed is available in the uTorrent forums.Happy pimping!torrentfreak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maut Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Already posted today.. search first please...//www.nsaneforums.com/topic/240207-remove-utorrent-ads-in-one-click-with-pimp-my-utorrent/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Already posted today.. search first please...//www.nsaneforums.com/topic/240207-remove-utorrent-ads-in-one-click-with-pimp-my-utorrent/Give it a rest will you..Oh no i forgot you can't..Because you just hide in the background waiting to pounce on people's mistakes..Bad and very Sad.but the most sadist of all is it's very true..Why not just use the report feature ? :troll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Already posted today.. search first please...//www.nsaneforums.com/topic/240207-remove-utorrent-ads-in-one-click-with-pimp-my-utorrent/Give it a rest will you..Oh no i forgot you can't..Because you just hide in the background waiting to pounce on people's mistakes..Bad and very Sad.but the most sadist of all is it's very true..Why not just use the report feature ? :troll:Oh and also i dont need to explain myself..But i will i am just posting them here without searching because its torrentfreak ;) And i am just trying to catch up for steven36 ..Hope your alright fellow.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Oh and also i dont need to explain myself..But i will i am just posting them here without searching because its torrentfreak ;) And i am just trying to catch up for steven36 ..Hope your alright fellow.. :)I'm OK Bro but the way I see it the person who had nothing better to do but go around every post I done and Rate Topics down they can post since they have nothing better to do. Ill watch movies and do other stuff no sweat off my back. I'm done here starting topics . :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Mate dont worry about all that old crap..Hope you start crackin again.. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Mate dont worry about all that old crap..Hope you start crackin again.. :PThat's what I'm doing not worrying about it. if I dont post they have nothing to mark down . Maybe they jealous maybe they have a resentment who gives a :shit: . But that's the coward's way about it doing something behinds someones back and cant see who they are . :thumbsdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cereberus Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 y even use utorrent ? i'm a former utorrent fan.at best i kept using the older utorrent before all the adware came along. but now i've fully switched to tixati.only use the old utorrent for private trackers which haven't yet whitelisted tixati. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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