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I don't want a bloated overweight and annoying client. I want what I always got from uTorrent:
 

A small, lightweight, minimalistic, fully function bitorrent client.

What I don't want:
I don't want to block ad servers in the host file to remove ads for something I'll never buy. I don't want bundles or sync or featured content. I want a tiny little torrent program that works as it should. I want a bittorrent client that isn't a multimedia center or an antivirus suite. I don't need it to accept apps or skins even. I don't want twitter or facebook integration.

 

My suggestion:
Remove all the crap that isn't torrenting related. The facebook and twitter btapps must go as of now the amount of work necessary for me to completely nuke them is ridiculous. Furthermore remove the "Featured Content" and "Bundles" entirely. Finally, remove the integration for Sync. I don't want it and never will. Leave it as it's own client people can use (or a downloadable add on) but don't force it on all of us.

 

Just let my microTorrent be micro and stop bloating it with garbage.

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I have been a uTorrent user for a long time and I absolutely agree with you. The current versions have lost the simplicity that was so very nice. I also don't want the "extras" because they are of no interest. I only want a small, clean and efficient program that will get my files.

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i have to agree with you. From today everytime i restore utorrent from the notification area i got the "all page sync sponsor". Seriously? Just try. Minimize, maximize. Close the sync, minimize and maximize again, it always appears lol

 

i know this is free and everything but if you want a "like it" on facebook just ask, stop hitting my face with symbols, popup and more. I'm using utorrent from years by now, don't want to switch to another client because of all this bloat

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everytime i restore utorrent from the notification area i got the "all page sync sponsor". Seriously? Just try. Minimize, maximize. Close the sync, minimize and maximize again, it always appears lol

 

Try this: open preferences. Click Advanced. Type offers in the filter box.

Adjust the values by clicking on them (press Set button after deleting/adjusting a digit/text value or setting false option) to look like this, and that stupid sync ad should go.:

 

2014-09-09_185935_zps84e47e17.jpg

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I've been using uTorrent for > 4 years. I was promised a lightweight torrenting option, and until lately i've got that. But now its full of all sorts of crap, and it needs to stop.

 

Does anyone know how to remove the top left "Upgrade to Plus!" stuff? I've got all the ad stuff removed but top left above the torrent list there is now an upgrade to plus option, and if you right click it you get the same options you get if you had right clicked on torrents!

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I've been using uTorrent for > 4 years. I was promised a lightweight torrenting option, and until lately i've got that. But now its full of all sorts of crap, and it needs to stop.

 

Does anyone know how to remove the top left "Upgrade to Plus!" stuff? I've got all the ad stuff removed but top left above the torrent list there is now an upgrade to plus option, and if you right click it you get the same options you get if you had right clicked on torrents!

 

Just updated and saw this. Does bittorrent inc. just hate the idea of a clean, lightweight bittorent client?

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I agree, I just want a light torrent app, like this used to be.  I understand using advertisements for money, but this is getting ridiculous.  This new sync option, takes up the entire screen, and I can't even quit out of it.  Ive lost the entire bar and can't even see any of my torrents..  Honestly why would you force the pop up add for the BETA update, that should be optional.

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I got that big Sync advertisment over my uTorrent interface today.

I have already go those advanced options set to false.

 

It must be something new causing it.

 

I noticed that there was an additional "X" in the top right of the sync ad.

Did you try clicking on that?

I noticed some previous settings (above image) which was working at the time I posted are now being over written by uTorrent, so try setting offers.404_dismiss to *true if it isn't already.

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I never had this issue with the sync crap...It may be because of some HOSTS file additions I added...

If you want to try adding these to your HOSTS to see if it helps:

 

0.0.0.0 bundles.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 apps.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 ads.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 offers.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 services.bunndle.com
0.0.0.0 cdn.ap.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 beta.bundles.bittorrent.com
0.0.0.0 67.215.246.203
0.0.0.0 67.215.246.204
0.0.0.0 82.221.103.245
0.0.0.0 82.221.103.246
0.0.0.0 111.119.15.31
0.0.0.0 111.119.15.32

 

 

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I noticed that there was an additional "X" in the top right of the sync ad.

Did you try clicking on that?

I noticed some previous settings (above image) which was working at the time I posted are now being over written by uTorrent, so try setting offer.404_dismiss to *true if it isn't already.

Yes, I saw the "X" to close it.

I will try messing with the offers.404 settings.

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I never had this issue with the sync crap...It may be because of some HOSTS file additions I added...

If you want to try adding these to your HOSTS to see if it helps:

 

0.0.0.0 bundles.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 apps.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 ads.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 offers.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 services.bunndle.com

0.0.0.0 cdn.ap.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 beta.bundles.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 67.215.246.203

0.0.0.0 67.215.246.204

0.0.0.0 82.221.103.245

0.0.0.0 82.221.103.246

0.0.0.0 111.119.15.31

0.0.0.0 111.119.15.32

 

I have similar entries prefixed with 127.0.0.1.

Is it not doing the same thing or is the 0.0.0.0 significant?

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I'm also getting a "recommended" tab stuffed into the detailed information pane. It can be removed but keeps coming back. Is there no goddamned end to the ads?

 

Edit: Anybody know what the last ad free, app free, crap free, version of bittorent was? Because I'm just gonna download that.

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I never had this issue with the sync crap...It may be because of some HOSTS file additions I added...

If you want to try adding these to your HOSTS to see if it helps:

 

0.0.0.0 bundles.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 apps.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 ads.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 offers.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 services.bunndle.com

0.0.0.0 cdn.ap.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 beta.bundles.bittorrent.com

0.0.0.0 67.215.246.203

0.0.0.0 67.215.246.204

0.0.0.0 82.221.103.245

0.0.0.0 82.221.103.246

0.0.0.0 111.119.15.31

0.0.0.0 111.119.15.32

No. I shouldn't have to keep adding shit to my host file to counter the crap I just don't want or need in a program that was and still is marketed as a "Tiny, east, elegant, fast, and plug and play".

What's easy, elegant, fast or plug and play about having to manually edit my HOSTS file to get it to stop popping up ads about shit I don't want?

 

Because of this ad crap, the program's starting to get blacklisted on certain sites, and I expect the list of sites to keep growing. Great job utorrent... great job. Keep it up and people won't be able to use this crap anyways.

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Try this: open preferences. Click Advanced. Type offers in the filter box.

Adjust the values by clicking on them (press Set button after deleting/adjusting a digit/text value or setting false option) to look like this, and that stupid sync ad should go.:

 

2014-09-09_185935_zps84e47e17.jpg

 

Thank You so much, this way works fantastically, no more Adds! No more Sync! No more horse Shit!

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I had to downgrade to the previous build. I don't mind the added bulk that much. I disabled the ads stuff a while back. However I tried the above advanced settings tweak, but it resets back everytime I restart uTorrent. So I get the stupid Sync ad everytime it starts. REALLY ANNOYING! I would consider upgrading back if they add a proper feature where you can disable that. I usually keep the side pane disabled for simplicity so having something like that come up is really annoying.

 

The Sync ad has the little X in the corner and I can click it to get back to my torrents. However if something else were to come up, there isn't one so I have to go re-enable the side pane, then click off to torrents to get my torrents in view again.

 

If they don't fix this, I WILL switch to something else. This is not something I will tolorate.

 

EDIT: The previous build I downgraded to is slightly older then this one. The sync thing still comes up, but unlike the latest build, I was able to disable the sync ad, and it stayed that way even after restarting uTorrent. Still will not upgrade again until it's confirmed that it's disabled through a proper UI option or if the advanced settings get saved properly and don't get reset when the program restarts.

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I'm with Apache.

I'm sick of this hijacking my window.

I want to check my torrents. Look at the seeders. The page I was JUST ON. No, it resets every time to all torrents when I click off this thing.

I want the settings to remain as-changed and not to have to worry "will updating make this program hard to use?"

 

every time I see a change, i'm less and less inclined to accept it and more and more tempted to just go elsewhere! I used to be so happy with Utorrent...

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I've disabled updates entirely. Until a suggificant amount of trackers I go to start banning my client or they decide to make this feature disable-able. I won't be updating again. If the client gets banned and I still don't see a fix, I'll switch to a different client for my torrents. I've been using uTorrent for almost a decade now. It will be sad to see it go, but it will have to happen if this keeps up. :(

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Cant even close the full screen ad in utorent 4.3.2.

 

What a piece of shit utorrent has become!!

 

Those settings will not stay. They get reset on next run of utorrent.

 

Only way I could block was adding 0.0.0.0 utclient.utorrent.com to host file or blocking with firewall.

 

Switching clients asap!!

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Cant even close the full screen ad in utorent 4.3.2.

 

What a piece of shit utorrent has become!!

 

Those settings will not stay. They get reset on next run of utorrent.

 

Only way I could block was adding 0.0.0.0 utclient.utorrent.com to host file or blocking with firewall.

 

Switching clients asap!!

If you keep clicking the 'X', it eventually responds. :lol:

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However I tried the above advanced settings tweak, but it resets back everytime I restart uTorrent.

 

This is variation of the above settings which stay (for me anyway) after restarting if you or anyone else is having this nightmare nonsense uTorrent has inflicted on it's users.

 

2014-09-17_142758_zpsc829fdb2.jpg

 

Note for offers.404_url & offers.featured_content_url :

Hightlight the whole url, then press SPACE bar, then press Set>OK.

 

Although unnecessary, I also did the same for offers.404_text.

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This is variation of the above settings which stay (for me anyway) after restarting if you or anyone else is having this nightmare nonsense uTorrent has inflicted on it's users.

 

2014-09-17_142758_zpsc829fdb2.jpg

 

Note for offers.404_url & offers.featured_content_url :

Hightlight the whole url, then press SPACE bar, then press Set>OK.

 

Although unnecessary, I also did the same for offers.404_text.

The problem with this solution is that these options reset back to their default state on their own after a certain amount of time. I've been setting those options to false as you show here, which solves the issue for a time, but a few hours later the options have reset and the stupid sync comes back.

 

I've completely set everything to 0 and False. See if that helps. I'll also be taking steps to report this version of utorrent as containing adware, which is exactly what all this crap is.

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