Ad Blocking Software List
The popularity of adblocking software has resulted in a very large number of adblocking software packages. We’re not necessarily against the concept of adblocking software, but we feel that it is important that the software is well designed, configurable, and installed deliberately by the computer user.
There are a large number of ad-blocking software packages available, some are much better designed than others. We recommend that you take a good look at what’s available before deciding which software to use. If you must use adblocking software, we’d recommend that you find one that is very configurable and is visible in its operation so you know when a website has been modified by the software.
Pop-up Stopper Companion Toolbar
Panicware - Primarily a pop-up blocker. Also has privacy features that clean up cookies, visited URLs, and images. Has a configurable list of blocked and allowed pop-ups. Does not block on-page advertisements.
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
http://www.panicware.com
Price: $39.95 download / $49.95 CD
www.panicware.com
Mozilla Adblock Project
Mozilla.org
The Adblock project, a project of the Mozdev.org group is a plugin for the Mozilla browser that does image filtering. The good news is that AdBlock is completely configurable by the end user, and nothing is blocked by default (currently) until the user ads in filtering rules. This project is under development and has the potential to become a very well-designed adblocking solution that will hopefully evolve into a product that blocks fairly and effectively.
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Mac OS X, Linux (requires Mozilla Browser)
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Price: Free
http://adblock.mozdev.org
Webwasher
Cyberguard
Webwasher is a commercial grade security product that allows large-scale management of Internet access. Designed for corporations with central control over the types of sites that employess are allowed to view. Among many other features, the software is reported to block banner ads. Product is fully configurable by a corporate IS team.
www.webwasher.com
AdSubtract
InterMute
AdSubtract is designed for blocking advertisements on the Internet. It comes with an extensive blacklist. While AdSubtract blocks virtually all types of advertisements, including pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, and Google Adsense, it’s operation is very visible. AdSubtract does not block plain text-links. AdSubtract has a toolbar that has a visible indication and reports of all sites that were blocked. The user can easily manage the list of sites that are blocked. However, the blocking that AdSubtract does is quite aggresive and as a result, it actually blocks many entire websites, not only advertising.
Price: $29.95 / Free Trial
www.intermute.com/adsubtract
AdMuncher
AdMuncher.com
AdMuncher is designed specifically for blocking advertisements, including popups and banner ads, Flash, and DHTML advertisements (ads that move over the top of a webpage.). AdMuncher also includes privacy features that scrambles ip addresses. AdMuncher is very configurable and you can prevent it from blocking regular ads while eliminating pop-up and pop-under windows.
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3.
Price $25 / Free Trial
www.admuncher.com
AdsGone
A1Tech, Inc.
AdsGone is an extensive pop-up and adblocking software program. It comes with a pre-set list of black-listed sites and is configurable so that certain domains can be un-blocked. It also includes protection from spyware.
Price: $19.95 / Free Trial (21 days)
www.adsgone.com
Norton Internet Security
Symantec, Inc.
Norton Internet Security is primarily a firewall product that comes with an ad-blocking/filtering component. the AdBlocking is difficult to configure and the software operation is entirely invisible. It’s impossible to tell if a site you’re looking at has modified by blocking-software making it difficult for the user to understand what is happening. The interface is not well designed for the user to understand what is blocked.
Price: $49.95 MSRP / Free Trial
www.symantec.com
February 15th, 2005 at 4:57 am
tell me how to get an adblocker that doesn’t try to sell me other stuff and charge and do it’s business whith being seen doing it
March 23rd, 2005 at 4:47 am
Take your time to have a look at our ads-blocking tool which for sure far surpasses all the available ad-blockers in its blocking function doing it very effectively and flexibly (enabling you to finetune whatever settings you wish to change) and on top of that will enable privacy cleaning and a number of very useful surfing functionality features. This best ads-blocking software is located here:
www.adscleaner.com
Enjoy!
Your well-wisher
Olga Melnik
Sales Department manager
SoftInform Ltd.
mailto: olga@softinform.com
tel: +375-17-2601765
cell: +375-29-7580292
Russiyanova 5/2/184, Minsk, Belarus
April 18th, 2005 at 6:25 am
Few steps for better, safer, faster browsing:
1., Switch to Firefox NOW if you haven’t done that already!
2., Install Adblock (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10) - this is the best known adblocking solution available
3., Use Spywareblaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) - a free program preventing malicious ActiveX programs to install on your system
4., Use Spybot S&D and Ad-aware and scan your system regularly (both of them are free for private use)
5., Use Norton Anti Virus 2005 - The best AV solution, definietly worth its price!
That is what I do at home.
May 11th, 2005 at 4:21 am
Norton Antivirus 2005 is shit. This was testified by c’t the leading computer magazine in Germany.
Stick to McAfee, AVG or the free Antivir Personal Edition Classic
May 11th, 2005 at 4:21 am
Norton Antivirus 2005 is shit. This was testified by c’t the leading computer magazine in Germany.
Stick to McAfee, AVG or the free Antivir Personal Edition Classic
May 25th, 2005 at 10:40 am
You might be interested in reviewing Privoxy,
June 6th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
you may want to add another excellent adblock application call PithHelmet which is an advanced ad blocking application for Apple’s Safari browser.
http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/
June 29th, 2005 at 3:02 am
It should be noted that Privoxy is not really for average joe user as it has a horrible learning curve and takes a significant amount of time and effort to configure to specific needs. It also has been without an update for a year.
Excellent is NOT a word that should be used to describe PithHelmet for Safari. As yet i’ve found no good interactive ad-block software for Safari. PithHelmet is at best, marginal.
Why no sophisticated, real-time, ad blocking add-ons have appeared for Safari or Camino is something i find completely baffling!
CSS ad blocking will work on most any Mac OS X Browser but i find this a completely unacceptable solution for several reasons:
1 - The user has no indication what is and is not being blocked
2 - Any alteration to the CSS file requires restarting the browser
3 - One needs a fair understanding of CSS to make any alterations to “filter rules”
Where the heck is the Privoxy equivalent for the non-guru? (i.e. For the person who wants precise interactive control over what is blocked and how, but doesn’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of regular expressions and doesn’t want to deal with complicated multi-level filtering schemes.)
July 5th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
Firefox with adblock and filterset.G rules!!!
July 21st, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Hi, I use Firefox with Adblock (on mandriva linux) Excellent, I do however set adblock to hide the ads rather than block them, that way the website owner can show that they have delivered the number of impressions of the ad, and get paid, I however havent seen an ad for years, I notice now that I am hiding the google syndication ads from your site, dpon’t worry though I did download them to write only memory!!
everybody wins.
m
August 5th, 2005 at 9:37 am
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= Say NO to web ads ! Reclaim your web! =
= You have the right to block ads ! =
=================blockads@gmail.com===============
Post comments to :
blockads@gmail.com
Use firefox http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock
August 18th, 2005 at 3:28 am
The latest stable beta version of Ad Muncher now
integrates directly into the top browsers.
This allows you to right click and remove iframes/images/links.
I am totally loving this.
http://www.admuncher.com/beta.pl?version=4.7&build=18491&key=1102949266
The best ad blocker just keeps getting better.
September 30th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
^isn’t spam inappropriate.. heres a tip for anyone. If there’s something free but something else that does basically the same thing and it cost money. tell the ones who want money to kiss your ass and use the free one.
also proxy block ads too.
January 15th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
I’m surprised no one has mentioned SafariBlock:
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/19202
January 28th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Please add this.
I use FireFox 1.5
with Ad Block Plus : Fast, smart , easy, free and well built.
Found @
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=266291
Enjoy…