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| | | | A lot of programs take care of such Web annoyances as banner ads, pop-up windows, background music, and more. The most comprehensive app for these things, however, just may be Ad Muncher, which takes care of these annoyances and a whole lot more.
First and foremost, Ad Muncher removes banner ads from most Web pages and optionally replaces the banner ad with a little text snippet, such as "Ad Munched." The app also removes pop-up ads generated via several methods, some of which other pop-up stoppers may ignore.
With either banner or pop-up ads, you can configure how Ad Muncher deciphers just what you consider an ad is, be the ad a standard banner size graphic, a keyword (you can edit the program's keyword list), or a specific JavaScript call.
Ad Muncher installs what amounts to a miniproxy server on your computer, which monitors the information flow before your browser even gets the information to render and alters a site's HTML code on the fly. This kills pop-ups before they appear for even a split second. This method can offer quite a few tricks. For example, it can alter your IP information if desired so Web servers can't identify from where you're surfing. It does this by bouncing your packets off of other proxy servers randomly. This can slow down your connection, but it definitely works.
Ad Muncher can also filter text, changing any text that matches what you have specified with other text. The program can also prevent auto-refreshes and remove background images and sounds from Web pages, self-focus commands, tiny "bug" graphics, and much more.
A great way to kill pop-ups and other Web annoyances. | | | | | | | |
| | | | Ad Muncher successfully "munched" every ad and pop-up we encountered. | | | | | | | |
| | | | Ad Muncher is another of the commercial add-ons available for IE7, but having used it for a few weeks we soon forgot about that - just like we forgot about website adverts. The ad-blocking market is a crowded one, but Ad Muncher has been seven years in development and it shows. It's hugely customisable, will remove pop-ups, pop-unders, embedded adverts, audio, Flash, background images, prevent auto-bookmarking, prevent web-bug tracking and all the time leave small, inoffensive text-only adverts alone (unless you want it to remove them as well).
The extensive configuration options mean you can be sure Ad Muncher will take out only what you don't want to see, leaving what you do want where it is. Not all ad blockers are so considerate. Indeed, it's up to you to decide exactly what Ad Muncher treats as an advert, from standard banners to specific keywords and even down to a JavaScript call, if you like. Page formatting is left intact, with only the ads removed, and there's little impact on loading times. Best of all, though, it just works without creating any browsing problems, and that's exactly how it should be. | | | | | | | |
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