If you are worried about the way Orkut displays advertisement on it’s pages, here is the tutorial to block, hide or remove ads completely from Orkut pages. Earlier Orkut was showing ads below friend’s column, but now it moved the advertisement column above friend’s column and showing it on the top right bar. Well, since Orkut is free to everyone, advertisements are the only way left to run Orkut. Google is investing handsome amount of revenue to run Orkut and showing ads is just a small way to recover a part of that investment. But honestly, the ad placement making Orkut look ugly and unprofessional. Let’s know how to get rid of it.
Here is the screeenshot advertisements on Orkut pages :
It replaced the ‘my friends’ place and looks pretty loud. But you can easily hide these ads from appearing on your profile pages. To hide advertisements from Orkut profile pages, follow the below steps :
1. You need to have Firefox. Get it.
2. Install a firefox addon called AdBlock Plus.
3. Restart firefox and login to Orkut.
4. You won’t see those ads from now on.
5. You are done.
AdBlock Plus will hide all ads from Orkut pages and you will see Orkut pages like this :
AdBlock plus plugin hides those ads, but you can still see the column saying “Advertisement”. Now if you want to block and remove advertisement completely from orkut pages including that column, follow below steps.
1. Get Firefox and GreaseMonkey script.
2. Install Orkut Ad Block script on your computer.
3. You are done.
You will see Orkut pages without any ads like the below screenshot :
That’s it. Now you have made Orkut advertisement free, enjoy spending time with your Orkut friends rather than viewing Google ads everytime you login to your profile. Remember that the greasemonkey script removes Orkut advertisements only while AdBlock plus will hide ads from all sites.
AdBlock Plus trick was published by OrkutDiary while GreaseMonkey script was posted on OrkutPlus.
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