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How to Remove Wibiya Toolbar From Your Blog

5 Aug

How will you remove the Wibiya toolbar? You can see on this blog that there is a toolbar that automatically appears at the bottom of the browser window — that’s the free Wibiya toolbar that contains applications you’ve set from the Wibiya website. I have been using the toolbar for many months now and recently decided to take if off my blog. Not that it is intrusive, in fact I loved it. I just wanted to clear some apps and give my blog a new clean face.

The problem? Removing (no installing is necessary as there was no installation done in the first place) the Wibiya toolbar is not possible at this time.

Even going to the Wibiya account settings does not help. There is no opt-out link available nor an option to delete your website from their system. WTF!

I wonder why it has to be like this. Those who just wanted to try how Wibiya toolbar works are now forever attached to it. There was not even a note during sign-up that once the website or blog gets into the Wibiya system, it will forever be part of it. Isn’t this a clear deceit to the webmasters or bloggers?

What is Wibiya’s take on this?

Update: I stand corrected. Removing the Wibiya toolbar was easy. Please read the first comment below.

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13 Responses to “How to Remove Wibiya Toolbar From Your Blog”

  1. Avi Smila August 7, 2010 at 1:26 pm #

    Hi There,

    Removing Wibiya is easy as installing it.

    If you’ve installed Wibiya as a plugin, just deactivate or delete the plugin.

    If you have chosen to install as a JS line of code, just comment out or remove this line of code.

    That’s it, it’s as easy as it gets.

    Let me emphasize again – Wibiya does not (and can not actually) force you to use the toolbar, you choose when to install and when to uninstall.

    For any question and advises, please contact us at support@wibiya.com
    We’re always here for you.

    Thank you for trying out Wibiya!

    Avi Smila, CTO
    wibiya.com

  2. Gary October 12, 2010 at 9:10 pm #

    Thanks. I was, also, getting frustrated. When I went to their website I couldn’t find anything that told me how to cancel. After reading the comment went to wordpress admin and unchecked the wibiya connection. Thanks

  3. Jeroen October 27, 2010 at 3:06 am #

    Hi, I’m even more frrustrated. Thanks to the toolbar I can’t login to my Forum Admin board. Which mean I can’t cancel the plug in. Any tips?

  4. Steve Lucas February 28, 2011 at 1:06 pm #

    Wibiya is no better than any other spyware. They such and the CTO should rot in hell. Only spyware wont let you uninstall thru add/remove programs.

  5. roy March 21, 2011 at 4:12 pm #

    I read the suggestion from AVI (wibiya CTO) but it does not seem to apply to a blogger blog in 2011. Any ideas on how to remove this toolbar from Blogger blogs?

    Thanks

  6. Kermonk July 11, 2011 at 3:49 pm #

    And what about the visitor browsing the site? How do they get rid of this shit?

  7. Chitownnista September 10, 2011 at 8:44 pm #

    I can’t login to my admin account because an error message shows for me that says,
    “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/76/7307476/html/wp-content/plugins/wibiya/wibiya.php:1) in /home/content/76/7307476/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 897″

    WTH type of horrible plug-in is this?

  8. SOMIB October 30, 2011 at 10:24 am #

    I also want to say “Rot in Hell.”

    Fortunately, Firefox Adblock allows removal. See instructions on
    http://ohpatience.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/how-to-block-filter-remove-delete-wibiya-toolbar/

    I needed to block about 5 entries referencing “Wibya”.

  9. Draco6 December 25, 2011 at 10:42 am #

    Ever since I used Wibiya my blog started running slow, and now you can’t even delete it?! WTF

  10. jesse January 12, 2012 at 8:37 am #

    As far as the message from Wibya,

    “Let me emphasize again – Wibiya does not (and can not actually) force you to use the toolbar, you choose when to install and when to uninstall.”

    That’s a lie. I’ve never seen a request to install (I’m one of those people who actually pays attention to what he installs). It’s not in add/remove programs; it’s not in add-ins.

    Companies like “Wibya” are the pestilence of the Internet.

  11. yann January 25, 2012 at 12:59 am #

    thanks!
    I remove wibiya finally!!!

    like the first comments:
    “Removing Wibiya is easy as installing it.
    If you’ve installed Wibiya as a plugin, just deactivate or delete the plugin.”

    I just took the off the PLUGIN CODE from my blog html.
    but its a little hard to find where it is…

  12. Chris Slatton February 1, 2012 at 8:17 pm #

    All I can say is most of you need to screw around with a million different SM plugins before you are going to see the absolute value of the Wibiya bar. I frankly can’t believe what I’m reading, you had to have installed it, Wibiya would help if you asked because they’ve got great customer support, but you can take it off as easy as YOU put it on. It provides real service while being FREE. It must be a competitor of Wibiya writing this crap, that’s all I can think of.

  13. allen February 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm #

    I never knowingly installed it and have no blog. It just showed up today. I am pissed since I cant seem to get it gone.

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