[SOLVED] Blocking skype ads?

Hello world!
This isnt game-related, but this is the only forum I’m active on when it comes to programming…
-Been thinking of a way to block skype ads, and would like to hear thoughts on the following idea…

Would it be possible to start skype through something like a batch file, that ALSO starts my own transparant OVERLAY window, that simply covers the ad-areas? ? ?

I guess I would need some way to poll windows for skypes window-coords and size, to adjust my overlay automatically…
min/maximization etc…

Or I could do this by screen-shotting my desktop and using image recog. (on the skypelogo or something), but would prefer something smaller…

Any thoughts on this?

Anyone know how to poll windows for the skype-window properties ?

Alternately, might I design a window-overlay, that I control as per usual (just a win-form, basically) , and have it relay those commands back to skype?

You can just add https://apps.skype.com to the restricted sites in your internet settings under windows, then restart skype. That will take care of the problem.

Wow that sounds awesome, I’ll just do that :slight_smile:

You’d think there was some back door for ad content, like the content being passed by some other app or something…
But THANKS!