How to disable advertising in the VKontakte application for Android. How to activate the “invisibility” mode in the official VKontakte client Additional VK functions

" From it you will learn how to remove advertising on the Internet, games and programs (and it is possible to do this without root rights), but this way you won’t be able to get rid of advertising offers in the VKontakte mobile application. In this instruction, we will supplement the previous article with information on how to disable VKontakte advertising on Android.

All you need is to carry out simple manipulations in the application and use a special one to enable additional VKontakte settings.

Useful articles on the site on the topic:

Removing VKontakte advertising on Android

1. Open the VK application on Android and go to settings.

2. Select “About the program”, after which information about the application version and a picture with a dog will appear. Click on this picture 3 times (nothing should happen). This action must be performed to activate the ability to disable advertising!

3. After that, open your dialer and enter the code: *#*#856682583#*#*

If you have a tablet and don’t have a dialer, just enter Google Play request “Dialer” and install any dialing application.

4. “VK - debugging” will open. Scroll down and you will see the “Disable Ads” option. Activate it by checking the box next to it.

Forums and social networks provide ample opportunities for communication. But you don’t always want to enter into dialogues and not with everyone. Often there is a desire to be invisible in a chat or to wander unnoticed through other people’s profiles. In Odnoklassniki, you can close your profile and buy invisible mode. You can become invisible on the VKontakte network absolutely free of charge.

Have you heard about the secret menu that is available in the standard application client? Then read carefully: our information will please you, and the instructions will help you “disappear” at the right moment. The best part is that to enable stealth mode you don’t even need ROOT rights to the device (everything is already in the official application menu - in “debugging mode”).

Step-by-step instructions for enabling stealth mode:

Information from 04/28/2017 : As a result of a change in VKontakte's policy, the "invisible" mode is no longer available. The only temporary solution is to use a third party client Kate Mobile , which allows you to partially return the Offline mode.

Note : If after typing the code (step 7) nothing happened, then you need to use the program.

Additional feature : Also, in addition to turning on the “ Invisible", in the same secret menu you can disable advertising - find the item "

Would you like to learn about some useful functions of the mega-popular in our latitudes social network In contact with? Then, read about the seven hidden features of VK and use the knowledge you gain now!

Quite recently we wrote about. There, everything was solved by installing a special plugin, which automatically added the functionality we needed, among which, downloading media files is only a small part of the improvements...

However, not always and not everyone has the opportunity to install something on the computer from which you access the Internet... And, it turns out that in most cases it is far from necessary to use third party software, - the main thing is to know some secrets and be able to use them;)

Therefore, I bring to your attention a small but useful selection of tips that will allow you to significantly diversify your stay on VKontakte :)

Changing the language

And we’ll start with perhaps the most useless, but fun function - changing the interface language of our account. Previously, in the “basement” (the very bottom of the page) of the social network there were links to quickly change the language, among which there were two funny variants of Russian: “Pre-Revolutionary” and “Soviet”.

Then Contact underwent a redesign and some of the “chips”, among which were the mentioned interface options, disappeared somewhere. But, in fact, everything remained in place, it was just moved :) Soviet and pre-revolutionary Contact can still be turned on. To do this, you need to go to “My Settings” and at the bottom of the “Language” drop-down list, the last two items will be our treasured parameters :)

Select the desired design option, click the “Apply” button and get the desired result. The only pity is that your friends will not see or appreciate your new interface, since it is visible only to you. However, in a group you can also laugh, for example, by changing the language of one of your comrades on his computer to a pre-revolutionary one, and calmly observing the reaction :).

By the way, on the same first settings tab (“General”) you can also change the address of your page like “vk.com/id_page_number” to a more readable and memorable option like “vk.com/vasya_pupkin”. To do this, just enter the desired name of your account in the “Page Address” field, just above the list of languages.

How to add symbols and underscores in messages

If the change in the interface language will be visible only to us, then now I propose to study the question of what can be done in Contact so that everyone can see it :) Specifically, I mean the possibility of formatting text in your messages. After the last redesign (around April-May), many of the text formatting functions were eliminated, but some remained...

The general concept of formatting VKontakte text is as follows: in front of the letter that needs to be highlighted in a certain way, a special code is placed, starting with symbols and ending with a certain number with a colon at the end. In practice, it looks something like this (we enter the example without quotes): "͠п͠р͠и͠в͠е͠т":

In addition to the wavy overline, the following codes also work now:

• ́ - stress (placed before the letter we want to emphasize and works only once in one word);
• - non-breaking space (replaced with an empty character and allows, for example, to send empty message);
• ¯ - overlining with a solid, straight line;
• ̅ - dotted line.

At the moment, everything is formatted, however, it is worth mentioning that VKontakte codes partially coincide with popular ALT codes. If anyone doesn’t know yet, the ALT code is a special set of numbers that are entered using the numeric keypad (a block of buttons with numbers on the right) while holding down ALT key. While the button is pressed, we can enter certain numbers that will not be visible, but as soon as we release the key, a certain character will appear.

So... By experimenting with the numbers after, you can get interesting results. For example, code © will give us a copyright icon - :)

Wall posts visible only to friends

Since we are talking about messages, it is worth mentioning one far from obvious, but useful function, such as hiding information on the wall from all visitors except friends. If you try to do this during normal editing from “My Page,” then you will not succeed, since the required option is not available anywhere.

Someone may rightly note that in Settings, in the “Privacy” (second) tab, you can configure it so that only friends (or no one at all :)) can view the wall. But this will be a global setting. But what if you want to hide only a single post?

It turns out that this is possible and not at all difficult. You just need to know where to look :) And you need to look in the “All entries” section! You can get into it if you click on the inscription on your page that displays the number of posts on the wall (top left above the “What’s new with you?” field). This will open a page displaying only your wall and an expanded news entry field:

Under the news entry field we will have the treasured “only for friends” checkbox. We activate it, publish the news and it will be invisible to everyone who is not on your friends list!

The only caveat is that you will no longer be able to hide previously added news. You can only hide new posts that you publish directly on your wall, which has an address like “vk.com/wallyourID”.

How to find out who visits you most often

There are generally many different questions associated with VKontakte friends... For example, we officially cannot find out which of our friends visited our page. For this purpose, VKontakte has dozens of applications that, with varying degrees of reliability, show who allegedly visited you. However, in reality, most often such applications do not work.

It turns out that there is quite real way find out who has visited you most often lately, even without third party applications of dubious quality. True, it is not known what degree of reliability there is in this method, since you can only check by asking people directly whether they visited you. Although, everything coincided for me, so I’ll tell you about the method, and it’s up to you :)

So, the first thing we need to do is go to “My Settings” and at the very bottom of the page find the inscription “You can delete your page.” Click on the link in this caption and go to the page for deleting your account:

There is no need to delete anything! We are only interested in the item “No one comments on my page.” We select it and in the field with a standard answer, the system will give us the names of two people who have visited your page recently :) If you want to find out who else, besides these two, visited you, repeat the procedure and get the names of another couple of visitors. We can repeat this until we count everyone! I got 7 people in a day - it seems to be true, although who will understand their developers :).

How to delete a friend request

The last situation related to friends, which often arises among VK users, is requests to be added as friends from strangers of dubious activity :). Previously, there was a button that allowed you to directly delete any add request. Today we are offered only two options: either add or remain as subscribers...

Subscribers will not be able to write messages to you directly, but will be able to read and comment on your posts on the wall... If you do not want the person to receive information about all your new posts, then you can do the following...

We leave the person as subscribers, and then go to the “My subscribers” section (in the menu under the avatar on your page). A pop-up window will open with a list of people following you. We find the avatar of the person we just added, and in the upper right corner, click on the “Block” button with a cross. Everything is ready - you won't be disturbed anymore :)

How to download music and videos

There are a whole bunch of services, plugins and full-fledged ones for downloading music and videos from Contact. However, there is a way to download media files directly without additional devices :). To do this, we can use any browser that allows us to view the code (usually viewing the code is caused by pressing the CTRL+U key combination).

To download music, go to the “My audio recordings” section and look for the track that we want to download. For speed, copy its name and call the page code using the context menu (in Chrome this is the “View page code” item) or the combination mentioned above (works in all popular browsers). Call the search by code (CTRL+F) and paste the copied name of the desired song (if there are several of them, then scroll through the code manually):

To make the search easier, you need to know that all the links we need are in the block with id="audios list". Now we find the name of the desired song, and the link to it will be in the block above in the block with the class class="play_btn fl_l". Copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp3", create new tab, paste this link into address bar and press Enter.

In some browsers (mostly old ones), after this manipulation the download will start immediately, and in some a player will appear. If you start playing, you need to call context menu and in it activate the “Save As” item. A standard save dialog will appear, in which you can select the location where the file will be downloaded and give it a normal name.

To download a video, we need to add it to “My Videos,” open it for playback and quickly press CTRL+U to access the code. Videos in Contact can be stored in two formats: .mp4 or .flv. We enter both options into the search in turn and look at the result. You should find a link like this:

As you can see, it is not stored in completely working condition. Specifically, its performance is hampered by backslashes, which appear three in front of forward slashes. We need to copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp4" or ".flv", and then paste it into the address bar and remove the extra groups of slashes. Then the algorithm is the same as for links to music: either the video will immediately start downloading to the default downloads folder, or the player will appear and we can save the video through the context menu.

The only thing worth saying is that we can download a video in this way only if it is uploaded to one of the servers of VK.com, VK.me or friendly video hosting sites, but not YouTube or RuTube. And one more thing:) For some videos there are several links - they are preceded by the codes url240, url360, url480 or url720. These numbers mean resolution, and therefore video quality;).

Status "Online from a mobile device" on a PC

One more simple trick for a snack :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the “Online” status, also began to display the “Online with” status mobile device", displayed if you are surfing the network from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately “got the trick” and began to boast that they have cool tablets and smartphones. Naturally, they cite their status as proof :)

But the status, if necessary, can be obtained quite easily if your browser is - or similar (a new one will also do :)).

We need to go to the browser menu and find the “Tools” - “Developer Tools” item there (also called by the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+I). Now in the panel that opens, activate the “Emulation” section and in the “Device” tab, select from the list the device that we want to emulate. I chose the Google Nexus 10 because this tablet has quite a high resolution screen and with such a resolution it will be comfortable to work on a regular monitor.

Now all that remains is to click the “Emulate” button and reload the Contact page. You will be automatically transferred to the mobile version of the site, and next to your name there will be a status icon in the form of a mobile phone :) Close the “Developer Tools” panel and last step switch to the full version of the site by clicking the button " Full version" in the left menu below. Although, if you are satisfied mobile version, then you can leave it...

conclusions

So our mini-excursion into the hidden capabilities of VKontakte has come to an end. In fact, there are many more secrets in VK, but it is unrealistic to know them all! And the obsolescence of certain features occurs quite rapidly. While this article was being written, for example, VKontakte returned the function for selecting a language from the site’s footer :) And the article was written in only two days...

In a word, you can’t keep track of everything, so we make the most of today what we can still use, and we’ll see what will happen tomorrow :) Happy surfing and more friends with whom you can communicate on any topic!

P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.

I'll show you how to secure your VKontakte account. Go to the VKontakte settings, then go to the security tab and enable two-step authentication on VKontakte. So that no one can hack your VKontakte page.

If you have not yet enabled two-step authentication on VKontakte, you will be prompted to enable Login Confirmation. Provides reliable protection against hacking: to enter the page, you must enter a one-time code received via SMS or other connected method.

Click Connect.

Login confirmation provides an additional level of protection for your VKontakte page. You can protect your page using your mobile phone.
Attention: when login confirmation is enabled, the password recovery service by phone number becomes unavailable. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you attach a current e-mail to the page, indicate your true first and last name, and upload your real photos as the main ones before continuing with the setup.

Verification will not tire you: to gain access to your account from a new browser or device, you only need to enter the verification code once.

Even if an attacker finds out your username, password and the verification code used, he will not be able to access your page from his computer.

Click Proceed to setup.

To confirm the action, you need to re-enter the password for your page. You can also in the future so that you have a unique page address.

Enter your VKontakte password and click confirm.

Action confirmations. For confirmation we will send to your mobile phone free SMS message with code.

Click get code.

After a couple of seconds, an activation code will be sent to your number to which your Vkotnakte page is registered.

We enter the number that we received in the SMS message and click send code.

The login confirmation check has been successfully activated. Don't forget to print out your backup codes. They will allow you to confirm login when you don't have access to your phone, such as when traveling.

Click complete setup.

At this time, an email will be sent to your email notifying you that the login confirmation function is enabled.

Application passwords.

Unfortunately, some applications do not yet work with verification codes. For example, mobile clients iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone.

For such applications, you need to create special passwords. This password is entered only once for each application; you do not need to remember it.

Click Close at the top right.

Top left in internet browser Click Refresh to refresh the page.

Now Click Show activity history.

Activity history shows information about which devices you accessed the site from and at what time. If you suspect that someone has accessed your profile, you can stop this activity at any time.

This displays all the recent activity of your VKontakte page and all the devices through which you (or not you) logged into your VKontakte account.

Click on the bottom left of End all sessions. to log out from all devices except the Internet browser in which we are now.

All sessions except the current one have ended.

Click Close.

If you use the Vkotakte mobile application on an iPhone, iPad or Windows Phone, then you will need to log into it again. And if you want, you can do it at all or .

Enter your email or phone number to which the VKontakte page is registered and the password for the page And click Go.

At this time, a notification will appear on your Internet browser page stating that an attempt has been made to log into your account from such and such IP.

You are logged in from the mobile application.

The VKontakte mobile application will redirect you to Mobile Internet browser and will open the security check page.

To confirm that you really are the owner of the page, please enter the confirmation code from the SMS sent to +7 and here is your number.

Enter the confirmation code sent to us via SMS and click send code.

To log into the application, use a special password to log in.

There is no need to remember this password. Copy it and enter it instead of your main password when logging into the application. You only need to enter it once.

Copy this one-time password to enter VKontakte.

Click Return to application.

Enter the one-time password into mobile app VKontakte and click Go.

By logging out of VKontakte and entering your username and password for the page, you will be asked to confirm that you really are the owner of the page. An SMS message will be sent to your number with a code that you will need to enter.

Other lessons on the site on the topic VKontakte:

Additional VKontakte settings will be useful for those who want to use VK to download tracks, get rid of intrusive advertising and take advantage of interesting page options. In this post we will look at which extension to install on your browser in order to take advantage of all the privileges of VK. For those who have not yet decided whether they need additional. functions on the resource, we list the main features of most extensions.

• Plugin for downloading tracks and videos
• Removing advertisements
• Removing intrusive blocks from possible friends and news
• Ability to make square photos of friends
• Displays the bitrate of any track

These are the functions that most extensions have. You can download one extension that will support all options or separate utilities for music and videos. Read on to see how it works.

Additional VKontakte settings for Yandex browser

Popular addition for VK, which does not contain harmful programs and viruses, is called KENZO VK, it was created specifically for Yandex. To download it, go to browser add-ons:

1. At the top, where the tabs are shown, click on the icon with three lines.
2. Scroll down a little. Select the "add-ons" function.
3. In this area, get to the very bottom of the page and open the extensions directory.
4. Enter the name of the utility. In front of you you will see the only page in the search results. Open it and download the application. Update VK.

Go to the music section to check the work. A download arrow should appear next to the tracks. In the advertising display area there is a function that helps hide it. Similar options for hiding unnecessary sections will be visible in the news and possible friends section.

If you want to become popular on VK, we advise you not to hide this section, but rather, look for your friends in it and knock on their door as friends. Also, to find new friends, contact us. For a reasonable cost, we will help you find new friends on this page: . In addition to the main add-ons, online services and applications have been invented for VK that help to all photos. If there are very few likes, come get them here: .

Download additional VKontakte settings

Where else can you download additional VK settings? We invite you to take a look at the Google Chrome extension store. If you type in a search for additional site settings, you will see 10-15 applications. Since they are sorted by user reviews, do not scroll too far down, but feel free to download the first application. The description is not entirely clear what benefits it provides to its users. However, in the description post you will find a link to a group where you can go and read about all the possibilities.

In a nutshell, the add-on is very reminiscent of KENZO. When connected, you can download music, remove advertising banners and hide unnecessary blocks. Read the full review from the developers in the group: