Re: Turning Off Live Messenger Advertisement

Robert,

Obviously you feel passionate about watching ads on your computer. Me, not
so much. I also noticed that you've helped a lot of people on this forum
with their questions. Thank you for that contribution.

To put the ad thing in perspective ......

In 2005 MS boasted around 500,000,000 active MSN users. I'm sure there's a
lot more than that now, but I'll use 500M for the example.

Say it takes $25M a year to stand up servers to help IM users find each
other, and keep some developers making incremental improvements to Messenger.
I know that $25M is a lot of money, servers are getting cheaper all the
time, and that IM clients are a dime a dozen. But large companies can't seem
to do anything without a big budget, so I'll stick to $25M a year.

With 500,000,000 (2005) active users, that works out to around $.05 per user
per year. I'd gladly send my $.05 portion to MS's Paypal account to cover
that cost. Maybe they could make that an option for turning off the ads !
Or, maybe MS could add a $1 to the cost of my next Windows or Office
purchase. That would cover my portion of Messenger use for several years.

Until then, I found some interesting reading to help out.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/atdmt.com/postid/?p=212972

Take care -- Dave



"RobertVA" wrote:

Dave wrote:
Reeeeeeeally

So, do you know how to turn off or block the advertisements?


"RobertVA" wrote:

Dave wrote:
Hello.

How can I turn off the Advertisement at the bottom of the Live Messenger
window? If that's not possible, what do I need to block at the firewall to
prevent access and force the default "Windows Live Messenger" logo in place
of the ad?

Thanks - Dave
Just HOW do you expect Microsoft to obtain the revenue that pays for the
Live Messenger servers, the electricity it takes to operate them and the
salaries of the staff members that keep them running? The advertisers
are paying Microsoft to display the ads to you. Where the ads promote
other Microsoft/MSN services, those other services display paid
advertisements. In some cases the ads promote Software packages like
Office or Vista. Without those ads Windows Live Messenger would only be
available to people paying a monthly subscription fee.


Sure!

Just right click on the Messenger icon in the notification area and
click "exit" in the resulting context menu.

I just can NOT see why some people think they should be able to use a
FREE (as in doesn't cost you money) on line service without putting up
with some advertisements. Objecting to pop-ups, pop-unders, layer ads
that block content, noisy ads and multimedia extravaganzas that have
hundreds of KB to load I can see, but a few banners or sidebars are to
be expected. You should be glad you don't actually have to buy the
advertised products to use the instant messenger.

.

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