Banner Ad Blocker

[Key Bored]

Hi All,

There are some good freeware popup blockers for IE (as well as the built-in
Windows SP2 version), but are there any that do a good job of blocking other
equally annoying annoyances such as banner ads and the #%*@#?! animated ads?
If not, what is the best shareware program that works with Windows XP and
IE6?

Thanyew,
Key Bored

 

[André Gulliksen]

There are some good freeware popup blockers for IE (as well as the
built-in Windows SP2 version), but are there any that do a good job
of blocking other equally annoying annoyances such as banner ads and
the #%*@#?! animated ads?

Firefox with Adblock.

 

[Ben A Gozar]

Promomitron and Firefox work for me

 

[/3iff //ullins]

Hi All,

There are some good freeware popup blockers for IE (as well as the built-in
Windows SP2 version), but are there any that do a good job of blocking other
equally annoying annoyances such as banner ads and the #%*@#?! animated ads?
If not, what is the best shareware program that works with Windows XP and
IE6?

Thanyew,
Key Bored

personally, i use a customized combonation of both a .pac (proxy
access configuration) file and a HOSTS file that has only a few
"vibrant media / intellitxt" entries in it. between the two i get very
close to a 100% ad-free web browsing experience!

info on using a "no-ads" .pac file:
http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads

info on HOSTS file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

hth!

 

[MsOsWin]

Promomitron and Firefox work for me

Promomitron and Hosts file, but I'm not sure which, or both, is/are doing the job.

 

[me]

Hi All,

There are some good freeware popup blockers for IE (as well
as the built-in Windows SP2 version), but are there any
that do a good job of blocking other equally annoying
annoyances such as banner ads and the #%*@#?! animated ads?
If not, what is the best shareware program that works with
Windows XP and IE6?

Thanyew,
Key Bored

Proxomitron (+ any browser).
http://www.proxomitron.info/

J

 

[SeaWolf]

Hi All,

There are some good freeware popup blockers for IE (as well as the
built-in Windows SP2 version), but are there any that do a good job
of blocking other equally annoying annoyances such as banner ads and
the #%*@#?! animated ads? If not, what is the best shareware program
that works with Windows XP and IE6?

Thanyew,
Key Bored

I've been using Naviscope for years now and even though its really old it
still works. I don't know if you can still find it but if it still does a
good job. I haven't been able to find anything better in that not only does
it take care of pop ups, ads, but it also tells you what's going on with
your browser. It allows you to see all connections and you can stop any
connection you want too. Its kind of nice and I've never seen a ad blocking
program anything like Naviscope, that's why I've had it for years and years.
I've had it since 1997!