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How do I disable ads in Viber for PC – version 11.4 (2019). The hosts file trick no longer works (the following one):
127.0.0.1 ads.viber.com
127.0.0.1 ads.aws.viber.com
127.0.0.1 ads-d.viber.com
Viber offers no option to disable (paid) ads and their ads are too large and too disruptive (covering half of the contact list).
This might be a bit late, but I found I way to do this...
Close Viber.exe (you know, right-click on viber icon in tray and exit :) )
Go to the settings folder of viber c:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Roaming\ViberPC\<your_number>\
note: This is the folder with the Viber Settings (there is another one ...\AppData\Local\Viber - this is Viber's install folder
Locate the viber.db file
Open it with SqLite and open the Settings table
Change the DownloadFolder in the database - like on this picture
note: For some reason, when you right-click on an image and select open in folder, the folder doesn't show up in explorer, but you can left-click on the image (view it) and you can open the folder from your photo viewer.
Viber is using UPD and not TCP for VoIP traffic. TCP is used for Text Messaging.
Viber uses RTP (and SRTP when encrypted). RTP is mostly implemented on UDP as it is a real time protocol.
The RTP stream of the audio or audio/video call is converted to SRTP and encrypted via Salsa20 algorithm using the session key.
Source Viber Encryption Overview
The use of both TCP and UDP is confirmed in Viber Communication Security unscramble the scrambled Contents, which used tcpdump to generate .pcap files to analyse the Viber data traffic:
This seemed like a good starting point to get some results so we filtered the data to get a one way voice stream using the following command:
tshark -r long-call.pcap -w long-call-oneway.pcap udp.dstport == 5243Here we select only the UDP packets with the destination port for the Viber service so it is only originating voice traffic.
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Besides the voice calls that Viber enables the user to make, it also allows them to send and receive text messages. This functionality uses some specialized tcp-based protocol to connect to the server and exchange messages. Decoding this stream has not been a priority within this project and there wasn’t any time left to research this further.
In order for Viber Desktop to run on your computer, the following ports must be open for all addresses for both TCP and UDP:
- 5242
- 4244
- 5243
- 9785
- 80
- 443
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I put also these two into my "c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts" file: (for mac the file location is: "/private/etc/hosts"), however, as others may suggest, later on new ad sites filtering might need.
so I have these now: (Viber related)