Ad Blockers That Really Work
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If you’re tired of annoying popups, flash ads, and the rest, you’ll find these downloads (as selected by our friends at PC World) useful. Check the reviews thoroughly, however, as some are more effective at different tasks.
Adblock Plus
This is one of the most popular Firefox add-ons, and for good reason.
Ad Muncher
Not happy with your ad-blocker? Try this one, a favorite of columnist Steve Bass.
Quero Toolbar
This navigation bar replacement blocks some advertisements and gives you plenty of other useful options.
Super Ad Blocker
Tackles even the most annoying ads, including pop-ups, banners, and the distracting fly-in and slide-in types.
Ad Annihilator
Blocks many pop-up ads, cookies, and other distractions, but it’s a geeky tool and you’ll need spare time to configure it perfectly.
2 Comments
Eric Bloch
November 27th, 2007
at 1:29pm
Here is another free Ad and URL blocker that works:
http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Rich Malizia
November 30th, 2007
at 11:08am
In this day, everyone should have some sort of firewall device between their computer and the Internet. I have had great success using the URL block list capabilities of my Netgear 614. If I do get a pop-up ad that my browser’s pop-up blocker cannot stop, I add the base URL (ie adsite.com) to my firewall and it’s blocked. It also blocks ads that are part of web pages. Those last ones are the troublemakers most of the time. Since they run within the web page, they don’t get blocked, but drop their annoying cookies anyway.