SocialClub Notification Blocker

[Speyedr]

Not sure exactly where to post this but I want to give my best shot at informing as many people about my efforts as possible.

As pretty much everyone is aware of by now, spammers have been sending out session invites for the past week or so and it seems R* either doesn't want to address the issue, or whatever they've done hasn't been very effective--In their infinite wisdom, R* decided that the setting "Hide Notifications" in SocialClub shouldn't hide session invites.

I decided to take a shot at developing my own program which could facilitate blocking notifications entirely as I'm already familiar with what needed to be researched in order to see if this could work.

This project has been a pretty big success, and I'm here to let people know that I've open-sourced the program: https://github.com/Speyedr/socialclub-notification-blocker

Please note that this is NOT a mod, and should not violate Rockstar Terms of Service as far as how it is intended to be used and how it was developed. This project was developed without decrypting or decompiling code, and it does not tamper with your game. It only monitors your network and drops packets which match the heuristics that have been enabled, and doing this does not give you an unfair advantage while playing.

This program is completely free to use, however I would greatly appreciate any donations for my efforts.

 

Also note that firewall is intended to only block notifications; although I haven't fully tested it, every other part of the SocialClub Overlay should work just fine (if you're using filter methods #1 or #2, at least--filter #3 is not that great at the moment).

Have a nice day!