#“How to Get Rid of Those Damned Giant Skype Pop-Up Ads”
Pretty much every time I bring up Skype, I get one of these massive overlay ads. This is despite me saying I don't want to see ads and, more importantly, the fact that I'm a paying customer. This is customer abuse, plain and simple.
Luckily I found a solution on one of the Skype forums.
- In Skype, go to Tools > Change Language > Edit Skype Language File... > Save as...
- Save default English as "SkypeEnglish.lang"
- If Windows can't save it in Skype dir, just let it save in your User Dir
- Edit that file in a text editor
- Change s_LANGUAGE_NAME=English to s_LANGUAGE_NAME=DieSkypeAdsDie in that file
- Save it
- Back in Skype, go to Tools > Change Language > Load Skype Language File... > "SkypeEnglish.lang"
- In Tools > Change Language, you should see Language Set to "DieSkypeAdsDie (user-defined)"
The reason this works is because Skype targets ads based on Language. It doesn't have any ads for the DieSkypeAdsDie Language so it doesn't show any.
A better solution would be for Skype not to abuse their paying customers with relentless repetitive in-your-face ads like this.