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Ads came back
Today I got the ads even with 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com applied in the hosts file. Maybe microsoft changed the url?
Hm, could be. I will take a look at this when I have time. I switched to Thunderbird in the meantime, but I still have outlook installed, so should be no problem 👍
new ad url: https://m.adnxs.com/ut/v3 block this
Hi, can you please explain how to use this?
I updated the script. @ABucket Thank you for the input. Do you know if I'll still need to block both domains or only that one? I don't really have the time currently to check.
I updated the script. @ABucket Thank you for the input. Do you know if I'll still need to block both domains or only that one? I don't really have the time currently to check.
Only that one, there's another domain https://www.bing.com/api/v1/mediation/clientauction that also contains the ads, but seems like blocking that one is enough
Ah ok, thanks. As long as it's one the single one it's relatively easy. But with host files you can only block the domain as a whole, so to block https://www.bing.com/api/v1/mediation/clientauction, you would need to block the entire bing.com domain. But as long as it's only the subdomain for now, it won't be a problem.
Here's what it should look like if you wish to do it manually.
0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com
0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com
I have those 2 in the host file: 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com but now I get microsoft outlook own ad... "Upgrade your account to premium" or something mine is in Italian.
I also have these 2 in the host file: 0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com
but getting "Upgrade your account" ads
EDIT: https://github.com/valinet/NewOutlookPatcher works, no ads and not even any placeholder blank space where the ads were - just straight to the emails
Yeah, it's a good repo. While being more intrusive, it really removes everything. I will still have a look if I can remove the new ads
0.0.0.0 outlookads.live.com 0.0.0.0 m.adnxs.com 0.0.0.0 adnxs.com 0.0.0.0 acdn.adnxs.com 0.0.0.0 3lift.com
Thanks, will update the script shortly, unless someone wants to make a PR first. I am busy atm and sadly don't find a lot of time.
Do we have a solution to the 'Upgrade your account' ad that does not go away, at least for me, even with all of Kiwironic's longer list of urls?
127.0.0.1 outlookads.live.com 127.0.0.1 m.adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 www.adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 acdn.adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 3lift.com 127.0.0.1 www.3lift.com 127.0.0.1 browser.events.data.microsoft.com/OneCollector/ 127.0.0.1 m.adnxs.com/ut/v3 127.0.0.1 eb2.3lift.com
I can confirm the above works, but they have updated their JavaScript code so that when they fail to show ads, they will show this instead.
One way to get rid of that is to use this to inject the DLL. https://github.com/valinet/NewOutlookPatcher
This works in removing the ads box itself. Instead of rewriting the url for ad servers, killing a process or running a scheduled task to remove the ads (which leaves the ads box empty but visible).
Sorry for the long wait. Thank you so much for your work @Kiwironic
I will try and update the tool to include all of these.
Does this method still work?
In Process Monitor (with resolute network addresses on) msedgewebview2.exe shows only network requests to specific IP addresses and 954.bm-nginx-loadbalancer.mgmt.ams3.adnexus.net for example.
Adnexus sounds like something ad related.
When i block this address via host file the three digit number at the beginning changes and ads are still there. 😒
I gave up on the cat and mouse, now I am using this method: https://github.com/valinet/NewOutlookPatcher
This patcher works fine with W11 24H2 26120.3964 !!!!!!! https://github.com/valinet/NewOutlookPatcher Thx!
