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Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify
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BlockTheSpot
A multi-purpose adblocker and skip bypass for the Windows Spotify Desktop Application.
Please support Spotify by purchasing premium
Current Version: 0.44
Last updated: 1 February 2020
Last tested version: 1.1.25.559.g85cf5e4c
Important Notice(s)
This .dll is virus free, false checks may appear. This can be reassured via the source code.
"chrome_elf.dll" gets replaced by Spotify Installer each time it updates, make sure to replace it again.
Features:
- Blocks all banner/video/audio ads within the app
- Retains friend, vertical video and radio functionality
- Unlocks the skip function for any track
- (Optonal) Built-in AdGuard DNS for ads blocking!
⚠️ This mod is for the Desktop Application of Spotify on Windows, not the Microsoft Store version.
Installation/Update:
- Browse to Spotify installation folder
%APPDATA%/Spotify
- Backup existing
chrome_elf.dll
by renaming it (e.g. chrome_elf.bak) - Download chrome_elf.zip
- Extract chrome_elf.dll, config.ini from chrome_elf.zip to that folder.
Uninstall:
- Browse to Spotify installation folder
%APPDATA%/Spotify
- Simply delete chrome_elf.dll, config.ini from your Spotify installation
- Rename your backup dll to chrome_elf.dll
Note:
- Starting from v0.42, AdGuardDNS look up in config.ini are disable by default.
- Built-in AdGuard DNS lookup, paranoid people may see additional DNS traffic UDP(53) going out to Adguard DNS Server.
- if you can't reach AdGuard DNS for some reason, things still working as expected.
- You can change Ads Check(blocking)DNS via config.ini AdGuardDNS_IP default are '176.103.130.134'
Known Issues and Caveats:
- Ads banner maybe appear if you network use 'Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Auto-Discovery_Protocol set Skip_wpad in config.ini to 1 may help.
- On windows 7, Ads Blocking may not work set WinHttpReadDataFix in config.ini to 1 may help.
- Built-in AdGuard DNS lookup, maybe cause application slowdown, set AdGuardDNS in config.ini to 0 to turn this feature off.