Hide the annoying ‘featured torrent’ bar in uTorrent 3.2.2

Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 by in How To

Hide the annoying 'featured torrent' bar in uTorrent 3.2.2

Around August, BitTorrent Inc. announced that they will be carrying ads in the popular uTorrent client to increase their revenue. They also promised including an ‘opt-out’ feature. However, the latest build of uTorrent 3.2.2 beta – build 28447 – includes an annoying ‘Featured Torrent’ bar, with no apparent opt-out mechanism.

A little bit of digging around the settings and I’ve figured out how to hide it. Here’s how. Click Options → Preferences. Then click on Advanced. Now scroll down a bit and look for the setting offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled and set it to False. BAM! I’ve also included a few screenshots to show you how to do this.

The annoying offers bar in uTorrent 3.2.2

Preferences - Advanced - Pick setting - Set to 'false'

Restart uTorrent and the bar is gone!

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28 Responses to “Hide the annoying ‘featured torrent’ bar in uTorrent 3.2.2”

  1. Gabriel 8 November 2012 at 9:18 AM #

    Thank you, this thing was annoying me.

    Reply
  2. dwnlfreak 9 November 2012 at 1:05 PM #

    COOL, THANKS A LOT :D

    Reply
  3. shane 10 November 2012 at 7:50 AM #

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

    Reply
  4. Clayton 10 November 2012 at 9:53 PM #

    Thanks!!

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  5. tommi_p 11 November 2012 at 6:21 PM #

    Thank you!

    Reply
  6. onet 13 November 2012 at 7:21 PM #

    Thank you so much!

    Reply
  7. Zed 13 November 2012 at 11:30 PM #

    Thank from France !

    Reply
  8. :) 15 November 2012 at 4:06 AM #

    Thanks

    Reply
  9. Frank 16 November 2012 at 11:32 PM #

    Good job!!

    Reply
  10. vulcha 17 November 2012 at 11:31 AM #

    thanks man

    Reply
  11. Me 18 November 2012 at 5:51 AM #

    Yaaaaay thx dude!!! \o/
    Needed a client restart but it also works with 3.2.1

    Reply
  12. Peultje 22 November 2012 at 10:43 PM #

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  13. csaba 23 November 2012 at 9:44 PM #

    Thank You

    Reply
  14. Dhn 25 November 2012 at 2:06 AM #

    aaaaand it’s gone! :) thank You!

    Reply
  15. Matreox 25 November 2012 at 3:11 PM #

    Thank You !!

    Reply
  16. DRV 27 November 2012 at 12:19 AM #

    Great! Thank you !

    Reply
  17. Xosé 4 December 2012 at 11:18 PM #

    Thank you very much!

    Reply
  18. sickboy 5 December 2012 at 1:19 AM #

    thank a lot!

    Reply
  19. alaaddin 10 December 2012 at 9:46 AM #

    thanks for brief explanation. thank google, brought me here.

    Reply
  20. ML 10 December 2012 at 9:09 PM #

    Thx alot maaaan!

    Reply
  21. utsav 12 December 2012 at 4:31 PM #

    THANX a lottttt broda :)

    Reply
  22. fred 13 December 2012 at 12:01 AM #

    thanks – you’re the man!

    Reply
  23. anon 14 December 2012 at 4:01 PM #

    Thanks for that. works great.

    Reply
  24. n8tron 21 December 2012 at 3:11 PM #

    Many thanks for this, just managed to eliminate this just before the “end of the world”

    Reply
  25. smekla 17 January 2013 at 1:56 AM #

    Thanks alot! That bar was really annoying…

    Reply
  26. Xan 29 January 2013 at 5:19 PM #

    Also works on 3.2.3. Thank you! This was annoying me…

    Reply
  27. Arturas 30 January 2013 at 2:15 AM #

    Another Thanks

    Reply
  28. cass 7 March 2013 at 4:11 PM #

    Thanks,i hate this useless bar

    Reply

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