- Apr 04, 2018 Sure, you get to keep using uTorrent and you won’t have to worry about updates trying to install garbage software onto your system, activating obnoxious ads, and pushing BitCoin miners on your PC. But uTorrent 2.2.1 was released in 2011.
- Nov 04, 2014 The latest version of utorrent for Mac have ads included and they are very annoying. In the Windows version you can easily remove the ads by disabling some info in settings.
There isn’t any doubt uTorrent is the most popular tool for downloading files through a peering network. If there is a close competitor to it, then it is BitTorrent, at least on Windows. We all use uTorrent and BitTorrent to download some necessary files from the internet. But one problem with uTorrent and BitTorrent is the number of ads, which it show. There isn’t any doubt, free apps will come with ads, for earning some revenue, but offering ads at the cost of user’s satisfaction is too tough for me to accept. But that is the problem with uTorrent and BitTorrent. Due to the presence of too many ads, the user interface shrinks, which make the experience too bad.
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But if you want to get rid of the ads on uTorrent, you can also upgrade to uTorrent Pro, which will offer a user experience free from ads and also offer some handful of features, useful for a class of users. But who needs those extra features! Everybody wants to get rid of ads and paying a few bucks for just getting rid of ads hardly make any sense. So here I will discuss the tutorial to get rid of ads on uTorrent without paying a single penny or switching to pro version. You just need to play around with some advanced settings of the apps to get rid of those annoying ads.
So without further ado, let’s get started with the tutorial.
How to Disable Ads in uTorrent and BitTorrent
- The uTorrent user interface before removing the ads looks like the one below. Pretty messed up, I know.
- Open uTorrent. Click on ‘Options’ in the menu bar, and click on ‘Preferences’.
- Now in the ‘Preferences’ window, click on ‘Advanced’.
- After that, you can find a text box which says ‘Filter’.
- Now you will have to change a few values for some entries in this section. I am just showing one example. Changing the remaining settings will be similar.
- In the filter, type ‘gui.show_plus_upsell’. Now set the value to ‘False’. You can do that by double-clicking on the entry.
- Now type the following in the ‘Filter’, and set the values of each of them to ‘False’.
- While trying to change the values to ‘False’, you might find some of them already set to ‘False’. Just leave them as it is for such entries.
- After you are done changing the values of all the entries, click on ‘OK’
- Now exit uTorrent completely, by right-clicking on the uTorrent icon in the taskbar, and clicking on ‘Exit’.
- Now enjoy an adless uTorrent on your computer. The user interface after removing the ads is as shown below.
Are you a BitTorrent guy? No issues! The steps are exactly similar in BitTorrent, as well. Thus, you can remove ads from BitTorrent with the simple steps, as well.
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Hope the tutorial on how to remove ads from uTorrent and BitTorrent was quite informative and helpful for you. Still, have issues? Feel free to comment it down below.
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uTorrent 2.2.1 Change Log
- Fixed Wine support
- Better support for atypical connections (such as VPNs) with Path MTU discovery
- Fixed SOCKS proxy support
- DHT security improvements
Changelog:
2011-03-09: Version 2.2.1 (build 25110)
- Change: Add a 'no' option to the 'set download location' 'overwrite' case that allows just changing the locaiton.
2011-03-07: Version 2.2.1 RC3 (build 25057)
- Fix: fixed edge case in OpenContainingFolder
- Fix: fixed memory leak in torrent refresh
- Fix: fixed reporting of speed test numbers in failure case
2011-03-04: Version 2.2.1 RC2 (build 25031)
- Fix: fixed sidebar counter refresh when deleting torrents
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2011-02-28: Version 2.2.1 RC1 (build 24908)
- Fix: fixed some cases where the sidebar wouldn't be updated
- Change: Always show tray icon is always enabled to work around disappearing systray icon
2011-02-18: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24796)
- Change: enable incoming IPv6 on Windows 7 SP1 (SP1 fixes an IPv6-related hang bug introduced in Windows 7)
- add torrent crash fix
2011-02-18: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24763)
- Change: CPU usage optimization for the GUI thread
- Fix: create more space for strings in UI for translations
2011-02-11: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24649)
- Change: use 11 asterixes instead of 6 for hashed passwords in settings dialog (in the hope to reduce confusion)
- Fix: systray icon not showing up when starting up minimized, and systray icon is not always on
- Fix: don't delete files when 'download to' and 'move to' directories are the same
- Feature: Support apps bundled with torrent file and install when source column clicked
2011-02-07: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24567)
- Fix: balloon notifications didn't display
- Fix: tray tooltip showed 0 for everything
- Fix: fixed issue causing uTP to break
- Fix: fixed bug causing .!ut extensions to break and any operation that moved files
- Fix: uTP fast-resend bug
2011-02-03: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24512)
- Change: improve logging for pex flood events and average over more messages
- Feature: enable disk congestion logic when disk cache is turned off
- Fix: socks5 proxy error handling would sometimes cause a freeze and infinite loop
- Fix: don't fall back on browser to download RSS torrents when proxy is used and non proxied connections are disabled
- Fix: episode numbers are no longer limited to 2 digits in torrent list
- Fix: fix copy bug in list views (would sometimes fail to copy certain fields)
- Fix: crash when deleting a torrent file that was added via magnet link
- Change: don't update RSS feeds just by opening the edit window
- Fix: UDP tracker fix for tracker returning incorrect scrape responses
2011-01-21: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24266)
- Fix: frequent crash when opening the containing folder of a torrent
- Change: Run apps in standard mode (not IE7 compatibility mode)
- Fix: Remove erroneous scam MessageBox
2011-01-19: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24217)
- Fix: fixed gui.graph_overhead
- Change: limit cache size to 2000 MB (for 32 bit builds)
- Fix: attempt at fixing disappearing systray icon
- Fix: Copy and paste in File list view fixed. (ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V)
- Fix: don't attempt to open a file if it doesn't exist (caused association dialog to appear)
- Change: only apply the port > 1023 for outgoing connection restriction for peers only hear about through the DHT
- Fix: back-ported proper support for disabling udp trackers from 3.0
- Fix: fix bug in UDP socks5 support which would cause infinite loops
- Fix: Use system call to open containing folder instead of launching explorer.exe (when available)
- Fix: Don't connect to ports < 1024 when no-connect-to-services is enabled (which it is by default)
- Fix: privacy checkbox in general settings would have multiline text
- Change: add port 80 and 443 to the default port block list
2010-12-28: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23984)
- Fix: fixed apps related (rare) crash bug
- Fix: crashbug in DHT (introduced by new rating feature)
- Fix: transparent background for play, source app and AV icons in torrent list
2010-12-20: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23908)
- Fix: be less strict when banning peers for PEX flood
- Fix: timer issues
- Fix: possible crash during autoupdate
2010-12-17: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23858)
- Fix: bug with empty ipfilter.dat
2010-12-17: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23832)
- Fix: fixed IP filter bug where overlapping ranges would not be handled properly
- Fix: optimized CPU usage in GUI
- Fix: Find content item wasn't displaying properly on XP
- Fix: potential fix of disconnecting peers by 'pex flood'
- Feature: DHT support for torrent rating (not user visible)
- Change: Only report a torrent as red because of tracker error if we don't have any peers
2010-12-03: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23551)
- Fix: Ctrl+C on columns copied data incorrectly
- Fix: make the torrent add dialog look better on low-dpi screens
- Feature: Add a uTP delay measurement graph
- Fix: skinning bug for tabs.bmp
2010-11-19: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23274)
- Fix: disable super verbose uTP logging
2010-11-19: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 23271)
- Fix: dynamic upload slots now take overhead into account
- Fix: fixed uTP reply_micro initialization bug
- Fix: running under wine again
- Fix: store checked for updates too often
- Fix: don't auto-update apps when they are disabled
- Fix: re-binding udp sockets after closing preferences caused slowdown on Win 7
- Fix: fixed and tuned PMTU discovery for uTP
- Fix: search box flickers when it should be hidden
- Fix: fixed exploit with open containing folder