New Outlook - How to remove ads without paying a Microsoft 365 subscription?

[BluePT]

A lot of people is asking how to deal with New Outlook ads in Windows 10/11. Adblockers are not the solution!

 

The clean solution is to edit the windows hosts file and add the following line:

 

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0.0.0.0  m.adnxs.com

Note: the old address "outlookads.live.com" no longer works!

[SL0TH]

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@echo off
echo 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com >> %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com >> %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
exit

 

Here's a simple batch do add it. Just save that to an empty .txt file, change the extension to .bat, right click and run as admin

Edit: Added the 2nd URL just in case.

Edited October 21 by SL0TH

[Herobrine]

This doesn't quite work for me.  Im still seeing ad mail at the top of my hotmail inbox even after setting this in my host file and restarting.

[BluePT]

@Herobrine try add also the old address (outlookads.live.com)

 

It's working fine here:

 

Edited October 21 by BluePT

[Herobrine]

@BluePT adding outlookads blocked the last ad.  I guess there's no way of removing the placeholder for it though.  Are you using something like Adguard too as I don't know why your outlook doesn't have this issue unless your outlook came from MS Office (just a guess).

[BluePT]

@Herobrine Hummm... no I don't use Adguard, but I have Kaspersky Plus installed. May be the Kaspersky extension is blocking something here.

[Popin]

Try add acdn.adnxs.com, api.taboola.com, 3lift.com