Uninstall EZBlocker

[martonlente]

Hello,

EZBlocker doesn't come with an installer, but works after running the file. Interestingly, though my Spotify keeps not playing ads after removing the file from my computer – like if EZBlocker were still present behind the scenes. Is there a way to actually force uninstall EZBlocker? If so, how?

Note: I don't see EZBlocker on my taskbar, neither in Task Manager. My EZBlocker was set to start with Windows. I'm on Windows 10. I'm using the Spotify UWP app (which I've also tried resetting).

Thank you in advance,
Márton Lente

[FireEmerald]

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

Spotify-Ad-Blocker/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs

Line 27 in 88acf24

private readonly string[] adHosts = { "pubads.g.doubleclick.net", "securepubads.g.doubleclick.net", "www.googletagservices.com", "gads.pubmatic.com", "ads.pubmatic.com", "tpc.googlesyndication.com", "pagead2.googlesyndication.com", "googleads.g.doubleclick.net" };

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

[martonlente]

Thanks @FireEmerald, it perfectly worked.

[yassin97]

I faced a problem that some songs didn't play with me, because of EZBlocker, @FireEmerald the problem is not those lines you've mentioned before, the problem is in this line spclient.wg.spotify.com, if you want to solve that problem just make sure that line is starting with # symbol, hope this will help, thank you.

[Masterface1]

Hi, I dont have the permissions to change it how do i get those???
i can open it as a administrator.

[yassin97]

Hi @Masterface1 ,
make a copy, change it, then replace it in the folder as an administrator.

[WorldofLoina]

Just want to earmark this for anyone suffering from spotify not being able to stream songs and only showing local files, if you're using ezblocker @FireEmerald's solution solved it for me.

[naydenjguyen2102]

for some reason i cant see anything about spotify when I open %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts plz help

[kissthedoc]

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

Spotify-Ad-Blocker/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs

Line 27 in 88acf24

private readonly string[] adHosts = { "pubads.g.doubleclick.net", "securepubads.g.doubleclick.net", "www.googletagservices.com", "gads.pubmatic.com", "ads.pubmatic.com", "tpc.googlesyndication.com", "pagead2.googlesyndication.com", "googleads.g.doubleclick.net" };

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply

[yee-bit]

Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls:

Spotify-Ad-Blocker/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs

Line 27 in 88acf24

private readonly string[] adHosts = { "pubads.g.doubleclick.net", "securepubads.g.doubleclick.net", "www.googletagservices.com", "gads.pubmatic.com", "ads.pubmatic.com", "tpc.googlesyndication.com", "pagead2.googlesyndication.com", "googleads.g.doubleclick.net" };

or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #.

Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply

Yeah same, I haven't had any luck finding anything about spotify on the text editor.

[kissthedoc]

Hmm I guess I should just format the computer ?

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On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, 14:23 yee-bit, ***@***.***> wrote: Open your %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with an text editor as administrator and remove any line which contains one of the following urls: https://github.com/Xeroday/Spotify-Ad-Blocker/blob/88acf24684c1b260f6715d2de2be87bd15412029/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/EZBlockerMain.cs#L27 or as a alternative, check that each line starts with a #. Hello, i'm trying to open the hosts file with the text editor running as administrator but it keep showing me the sample file and i need to get rid of the EZBlocker, please reply Yeah same, I haven't had any luck finding anything about spotify on the text editor. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#182 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AWDZKNVW3OXX775PG4SL3DTUJKN6TANCNFSM4GEYUOEA> .