How to disable ads in uTorrent

You may have read about BitTorrent including ads in their popular torrent client recently. Not everyone were pleased with this decision. Fortunately disabling these ads is just a few mouse clicks away. And the best part is you don’t need any additional software to do this. That’s right , we can disable it from within the app.

Let me walk you through the steps to disable those ads in the UI:

First, open uTorrent (or BitTorrent) and Click on Options>Preferences

Now Click on Advanced in the left panel.

1. In the search bar found in the right panel of the advanced tab, start typing the following text to access the settings for it.

left_rail_offer

2. Then double click on the text in the right panel to change the value to false. You could also set the radio button to false and click OK.

Now repeat the above steps and change the value to false, for each of the settings below:

gui.show_plus_upsell

sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled

bt.enable_pulse

gui.show_notorrents_node

offers.content_offer_autoexec

Now close and re-open uTorrent. No more ads in the interface.

If this post helped you, drop a comment below.

Thanks to Torrentfreak and Utorrent forums

34 COMMENTS

sandroultimo November 18, 2012 At 6:33 PM

Thanks, began to break all … hello spam
ÐŸÐ»Ð°Ð¼ÐµÐ½ November 18, 2012 At 6:38 PM

10x – nice, smooth and working
mizdoc November 18, 2012 At 9:13 PM

Wow. Worked like a charm. Now, if only we could get rid of the ads in our web browsers….if only….
thanks for the tip; much appreciated.
- Brandon Hawkin September 28, 2013 At 4:00 AM
  
  If you have Google Chrome, Adblock and Adblock Plus work great. They remove YouTube ads as well
Ali Mirzaie December 1, 2012 At 8:59 PM

thank you very much
Kian January 4, 2013 At 1:06 AM

Perfect! Thank you so much 🙂

Kian, from Iran
Duc Su January 22, 2013 At 11:42 AM

That is freaking awesome. Just updated to latest version and saw those ads.
Bills June 26, 2013 At 3:01 PM

Thanks mate.
noone July 5, 2013 At 9:23 AM

oh thank you thank you thank you! the ads in bottorrent were always – ALWAYS – these stupid, moronic ads for girls! Isn’t there anything to sell other than women with their breasts sticking out? What a progressed world we live in…
qwerty July 6, 2013 At 5:01 PM

thanks
Callum Oberholzer July 22, 2013 At 7:36 PM

shot!!:)
Bobby Bit Bang Boom August 10, 2013 At 10:33 PM

In BitTorrent 7.8.1, the advanced options are offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled and offers.left_rail_offer_enabled.
Also, there is an Options menu tem “Show featured content” which should be unchecked.
Khanh September 12, 2013 At 7:09 PM

very nice! Thanks you very much.
muzorro January 30, 2014 At 5:38 AM

süper thank you
Pat February 27, 2014 At 9:01 PM

Nice!Works like a charm
Gina Nasworthy January 8, 2015 At 10:00 AM

Thank you so much! No more peep shows!
Arsany Osama January 22, 2015 At 8:30 AM

thanks!
George February 1, 2015 At 11:24 PM

Thank you!
Casinocasto February 3, 2015 At 2:19 PM

Nice! It actually works, thank you so much!
McRae February 7, 2015 At 9:22 PM

Yep. Works fine. Much appreciated!
João February 10, 2015 At 4:23 AM

Thanks a lot!!
Dr. Schultz February 14, 2015 At 4:54 AM

Nice
WhatsMyName March 28, 2015 At 9:50 PM

Worked perfect for the ad on the side. But the one on top still won’t go. I’m using uTorrent 3.4.2
Tony A April 3, 2015 At 6:49 AM

THANK YOU! …… Thank You
Chunmeista May 11, 2015 At 4:57 PM

Thank you! I was tired of that. Not something I’d want to explain to my parents or friends if they came over XD
nDave May 25, 2015 At 7:00 PM

OMG! It works! Thanks dude!
Victor Vazquez July 30, 2015 At 4:36 PM

Thanks
Azam Ali August 6, 2015 At 6:59 AM

Nice, Thanks
SteveZodiacxl9 August 20, 2015 At 2:23 AM

Confirmed, it works. Many thanks.
LordSendo October 9, 2015 At 12:55 PM

I was fine with the adds, giving some revenue to bit torrent but once they started audio adds… It was the last straw!
Andrée-Anne February 22, 2016 At 11:02 PM

Oh sweet thanks !! I had videos with sounds that was scary the shit out of me the first time it appeared and didn’t know where it came from!
Scott February 25, 2016 At 5:35 AM

Thanks sooo much! You saved my computer! I was about to toss it out the window. lol
0ldMan March 16, 2016 At 6:33 PM

Whew! worked for BitTorrent 7.9.5. Thanks Ashwin.
solomon March 29, 2016 At 3:39 PM

really awsome …….worked well………superb…