Did you manage to make it work with skype ? (it seems that skype doesn't use the...

kogus · on Jan 21, 2015

I've found it effective to just watch Skype with Fiddler, and add whatever ad servers it touches to my hosts file, and redirect them to 127.0.0.1 Entries like this work for me:

  #BEGIN: Skype ad servers
  127.0.0.1       rad.msn.com
  127.0.0.1       a.rad.msn.com
  127.0.0.1       secure.adnxs.com
  127.0.0.1       m.adnxs.com
  127.0.0.1       ads1.msads.net
  #END: Skype ad servers

arthurfm · on Jan 21, 2015

To disable the banner ad you could add https://apps.skype.com/ to your restricted sites list.[1]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/27dihm/lpt_you_...