>>>BTW, does anyone know how to get rid of ads in Skype? Is it because Skype is now part of MS or did I get malware (I ran Malware Bytes now quite regularly),
>>>I don't use Skype often but when I do, I don't need to see Milwaukee Singles.
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>LOL. Apparently you can add apps.skype.com to your restricted sites to block the ads- but also the Skype home screen.
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>FWIW, the biggest intrusion I see at the moment is the Windows 10 nag icon/popup. I remove the culprit Windows updates and make the recommended registry settings and the nag goes away... only to return a day or ten later.

I don't see a nag popup (using Windows 7), but the Windows Updates stopped showing me that there is something to update at all. Two times in the row I manually checked if I had updates (last time it was 58 new updates). I also need to make sure to uncheck that update to Windows 10.