MS teams ad banner in OneDrive desktop client

[SM03]

Does anyone know any way/workaround (reg or group policy tweak) to block this MS team ads in the OD client?
I fed up closing this thing again & again, such a high nagging advertisement.
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[garlin]

From what I know, there's no client tweaks. When apps like Skype & OneDrive connect to the cloud, they get instructions to push banner ads.
Snoop their network traffic using your fave app like ProcMon or Fiddler, then create a firewall rule or localhost the ad server's DNS domain.

It might be already on one of those MS privacy block lists floating around the web.

 

[SM03]

From what I know, there's no client tweaks. When apps like Skype & OneDrive connect to the cloud, they get instructions to push banner ads.
Snoop their network traffic using your fave app like ProcMon or Fiddler, then create a firewall rule or localhost the ad server's DNS domain.

It might be already on one of those MS privacy block lists floating around the web.

garlin
Just to clarify further, am seeing this on W10 Pro, not W11, saying this as you shared some reg tweak for W11 in PM

can you share any workaround for W10 for this & the privacy block lists that you mentioned in your post, to get rid of this? Or if any other way?

 

[garlin]

Are you're thinking of someone else's PM?

Here's a script to block MS domains for privacy. Don't use the whole list, it's for reference.
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/blob/master/scripts/block-telemetry.ps1

Documented endpoints.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-endpoints-1709-non-enterprise-editions

My best guess by snooping traffic in ProcMon, is to block domain *.a-msedge.net
Edge stands for "edge network", not the browser. MS runs its own worldwide CDN network, alongside Akamai to speed up content.