Xbox 360

This is not a guide how to configure your router. You will need to figure that out yourself, this is mainly to demonstrate the concept and you can apply it to whatever router you have or whatever software you choose to use.

It seems that every other thread that comes up has someone complaining about the advertisement's on the Xbox dashboard. Some suggestions that are passed around are to just use the quick launch to not have to look at them, or the too bad, they have no choice so deal with it. I read topics about how the price of Live should include the removal of advertisements or that it's unfair they have to deal with it even after paying for a subscription fee.

Personally, I don't like them. I don't like them on TV. I don't like them on websites and I don't like them on my Xbox. DVR takes care of commercials, Adblock takes care of them on the internet and a simple filter works perfectly to remove them on my Xbox. I've been using this for the last few years and it's still working to this day so I thought I might share it with the few out here that do not know how.

If you block https://rad.msn.com, you will not have to look at advertisements again on the Xbox, as well as most Microsoft websites. There are many ways to block this website and the most simple way is to filter it with your router. Most routers have the option to block websites, and that's really all there is too it. Block the website above and ad's are gone for good. You can also use OpenDNS or similar service to block it, but it requires additional setup and configuration which I'm not going to get into. Google can provide more answers.

Hopefully this was helpful to someone and can put a rest to some of the complaints.

This is good and all, but instead if boxes with pictures on them, you'll get blank boxes.

Makes it worse than when the ads were there.
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Quote:I just get a 403 error when I try to go there
@jakethenoob

You won't be able to go there with a normal browser. That's just the server all the ads are loaded from.
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kewl, not worth it tho, paying for gold shouls get rid of them.
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The point of paying for LIVE.. years ago... was to not see ads. That was one thing that MS pushed.

Obviously since the the service has grown exponentially over the years, it becomes a lot more expensive to run the service.. hence why we all see ads regardless.

Keep in mind.. it's a business. Just ignore the ads.