You may have read reports of ads on torrent clients carrying malware. Leave aside malware, such ads a definite eyesore for users. There are several ways on how you can remove ads from Torrent clients ranging from uTorrent to several others without paying anything or upgrading to premium accounts. Here are a few tips that you can use to your advantage.
How to remove ads on uTorrent and BitTorrent
uTorrent and BitTorrent have more or less the same layout, so the next actions can be applied to both.
How to remove ads on uTorrent and BitTorrentHow to remove ads on BitComet
You can either look up the following options by clicking the empty Filter box to type their names or scroll the list until you spot them in the Name column:
enable_pulse enable show_notorrents_node show_plus_upsell content_offer_autoexec featured_content_badge_enabled featured_content_notifications_enabled featured_content_rss_enabled left_rail_offer_enabled sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
From there, take a look at the Value column for each of these options. In order to remove unused GUI elements, you can open the Options menu to deselect the following:
Show Toolbar (or press F4) Show Sidebar (or press F7) Show Bundles (or press F8)
How to remove ads on BitComet
In BitComet, there are adware elements that will be present by the following:
Start Page Comments Snapshots tabs Homepage Movies Music Software Games Forums buttons (present on the toolbar)
The toolbar buttons can be hidden from the main window from the View -> Toolbar -> Buttons menu. Following these steps, you will easily be able to prevent the ads from popping on your Torrent clients. However, if you feel that you should fund them for continuing to try out their service, then let those ads stay as they were before.
