User blog comment:Thelolistan/Skype Opinion Poll/@comment-6812733-20160121005912/@comment-6812733-20160124212613

Here ya go: Link

I don't really know about the updater thing, it still keeps asking me to download the latest updates to Skype but it never succeeds, it crashes and says that it's not possible to update Skype. Also, if you don't know how to not get the skype advertisements, just ask, I've been able to block them.