How to remove ads from Orkut pages

Nikhil George — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:01:29 +0000

You must have noticed that Orkut has now shifted the position of ads to the top of Orkut pages. Doesn’t that make Orkut look dirty? I will show you how you can remove those ads from Orkut pages. This trick has been there for quite some time, but now that Orkut is showing them right at top of pages, I think it would be good to remove them.

This works with Mozilla Firefox only.
Install Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox (if you haven’t)
Install the remove Orkut ads script

Why Orkut is showing ads ?

The Official Orkut blog explains that in this post as

One of the great things about social networks is their ability to supply you with information that’s relevant to you….On the Orkut team, we believe that advertisements should be no different

So the Orkut team thinks that these ads may provide additional information relevant to you.

But that might not be the only reason. There were rumors that Google might be shutting down Orkut. Running Orkut is a very expensive task for Google and they might want to earn at least some part of the expenses through these ads.

In fact they have created a micro site for advertising on Orkut that says Orkut is the best way to reach Indians online.

Add user menu to Orkut

Nikhil George — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:55:44 +0000

This is a GreaseMonkey application that adds a user menu to user profiles on orkut that provides one click access to their scarpbook,album,add as friend etc when you right click on user pictures. This is really cool feature and avoid wasting time by visiting the user profile each time.

There was some other userscripts for firefox similar to this that replaced user name with links to scrapbook, album etc, but this one is better and beautiful. See screenshot

This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

Install GreaseMonkey addon for firefox if you haven’t yet. Click to install
Install the Userscript for user menu. Click to install

NIKPAGES » userscript

How to remove ads from Orkut pages

Why Orkut is showing ads ?

Add user menu to Orkut