Hello everybody!
In this video, I’m going to show you how to disable advertising in Viber – both on
your computer
and smartphone.
The annoying ads that call on us to buy all kinds of goods and services seem to be everywhere
– from commercial newsletters to banners flashing all over a website.
If you use Viber, see lots of ads and wonder how to get rid of them – this video will
certainly come in handy.
Advertising banners shown in this messenger are personalized for every user, and what
is more, they are also bound to your location.
It’s quite easy to disable such content; all you need is to change some settings.
So, let’s begin.
Disable ads on Android First of all, let’s find out how to turn
ads off on mobile devices.
For Android-based devices, open Settings, Google, look for the line “Ads” and open
it.
Enable the slider for “Opt out of Ads Personalization.”
Now open the main settings window, open Apps and look for Viber.
Go to App permissions, and switch the Location slider to the left to disable it.
Disable ads on iOS If you use an iPhone, open Settings / Privacy.
At the bottom of the screen, find the line “Advertising” And enable “Limit ad tracking.”
Disable ads in Viber To have as little advertising as possible
in the messenger itself, take your smartphone, open Viber, tap Settings / Calls and messages
and disable the option “Receive business messages.”
It should reduce the number of Viber ads considerably.
Disable ads on PC If you use Viber for PC and you notice ads
appearing in the lower left corner, under the list of contacts, it can be removed too.
All you need is to modify the file “hosts.”
To do it, follow this path: C / Windows / System32 / drivers / etc
Inside the folder you will see this file.
Open it for editing as Administrator - otherwise, you won’t be able to save the changes you
will make.
So, use the search field to open Notepad as Administrator.
Now click File / Open and specify the path to the file.
C / Windows / System32 / drivers / etc, and select the file; if you don’t see it, select
“All files” and “Open.”
Copy the following addresses to the file.
…. You can find the full list of addresses in
the description below this video.
Now press the key shortcut Ctrl+S, or click File / Save.
Before saving, exit Viber.
After the file is saved, start the messenger and check if any ads are displayed now.
That’s all!
As you can see, removing ads from Viber is quite easy, though not always effective.
If the last method didn’t work, the developers might have introduced some changes to the
app so you may need to add new ad server addresses to the file “hosts.”
As the app gets updated, we will try to update the list of these servers too, or you can
find it elsewhere on the web.
Just in case you know other ways of removing ads from this messenger, we’d be happy to
read about them in your comments under this video.
That’s all for now!
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