Disable ads in Viber

Question

Recent version of Viber on Windows started displaying ads. It appeared in sidebar under contacts. There is no GUI option to disable.

How can I disable them?

https://superuser.com/questions/1477874/remove-ads-in-viber-for-pc — cat, Sep 02 '19 at 19:04

Andras Sebö · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-02T08:34:23.847

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I put

127.0.0.1 ads.viber.com
127.0.0.1 ads.aws.viber.com
127.0.0.1 ads-d.viber.com
127.0.0.1 s-bid.rmp.rakuten.com

into my c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. Since then I have no ads ;) Hope it'll help for you, too.

edited Sep 02 '19 at 08:34

answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:21

Andras Sebö

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Thanks. Haven't tested, but I hope this works. – janot Jul 26 '17 at 19:46
Let me know if you have tested! – Andras Sebö Jul 27 '17 at 08:00
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Confirming that it works. – Howie Aug 05 '17 at 08:02
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Also works on macOS. File `/etc/hosts`. – icem Sep 30 '17 at 10:48
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Same on Linux: /etc/hosts – Andras Sebö Oct 02 '17 at 07:40
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bless you kind person – mishap Oct 26 '17 at 21:06
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Live long and prosper! – Chris Koston Nov 27 '17 at 21:47
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for linux/mac run: sudo echo 127.0.0.1 ads.viber.com >> /etc/hosts – Art Jan 02 '18 at 22:10
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Still works as of writing this. – Ivan Ivanic Apr 26 '18 at 15:04
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Viber should thank you and put you on the payroll. I was about to uninstall. – Miro Jul 21 '18 at 22:02
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@Miro: same :). They have no idea how much the BAD kid of ads harm them. If the ads were more gentle and not long, cpu-hogging videos more people would probably use their software. *sigh* – Axonn Nov 01 '18 at 20:51
God bless you!!! – WebBrother Feb 18 '19 at 14:57
This no longer works after a recent Viber update. – Borislav Ivanov Sep 02 '19 at 06:30
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New url added to prevent ads in the new Viber 11.4.0 ;) – Andras Sebö Sep 02 '19 at 08:40
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Ads are back after the latest Viber update, 11.9.1 . – darkred Nov 19 '19 at 21:28
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block *.adnxs.com. Specifically fra1-ib.adnxs.com, mediation.adnxs.com, ams1-mobile.adnxs.com and crcdn01.adnxs.com. Personally I blocked everything from adnxs.com – Panagiotis Nov 20 '19 at 10:52
@Panagiotis Thank you! It works. – darkred Nov 21 '19 at 17:00

Danatela · Answer 2 · 2020-10-16T10:36:46.090

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I had to block extra addresses (discovered in Proxifier):

ads.cdn.viber.com
ads.*.viber.com
locp-ir.viber.com

Also I had to open preferences and close. Then the effect was achieved.

edited Oct 16 '20 at 10:36

answered Apr 11 '19 at 07:24

Danatela

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Thank you. The ads were back but thanks to these additional addresses managed to get rid of them again. ARGH, nevermind, they're back again. What software did you use to find the addresses? Wireshark is sometimes a bit too verbose. – Axonn Sep 02 '19 at 07:04
That helped a lot! Thanks you wise sir! – PetarS Sep 05 '19 at 12:47
@Axonn I used [Proxifier](http://www.proxifier.com) – Danatela Nov 06 '19 at 04:25

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '19 at 17:28

Owners of MikroTik routers who use DNS caching can create a static DNS entry on the router with Regexp field containing ads(\-d|\.aws)?\.viber\.com and Address field containing 127.0.0.1. That will stop all devices on the network (phones, tablets) from showing those ads, not just a single PC or Mac computer like with the hosts file.

Owners of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter devices can do the same but will have to create three separate entries because EdgeRouter does not support regex. Same goes for any other router or firewall, better to block on the edge.

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