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« on: May 14, 2004, 03:50:03 PM »
I know most of you are savvy enough to be using something to deal with popups and other annoying web content.

This article on Wired goes over some options for ad blockers that are free.

I'm still using Proxomitron in Windows (which blocks flash ads, annoying and nosy java scripting, most banner ads, popups, and many other things).

In Linux I have a massive hosts file with something like 14,000 urls and IPs that most commonly seen ads are served from.

That hosts file blocks probably 99% of the stuff out there, and of course in Linux I also use Opera, which has popup controls.

The article I linked here has some stuff I've never seen though.  What are you guys using lately?
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2004, 04:47:03 PM »
Google toolbar. I really don't surf too much so this gets the job done fine for me.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2004, 04:59:24 PM »
Google toolbar for IE

Panicware's Popup Stopper for Mozilla
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2004, 06:55:41 PM »
Google tool bar for IE of course.  Have you ever tried it Demo?
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2004, 08:32:50 PM »
I believe in overkill. I use MyIE2 which blocks ads. Then I use Google Toolbar which blocks ads. Then I use ZoneAlarm firewall, which also blocks ads. Between the three of them, I have seen only one popup ad in the past six months.
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« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2004, 11:38:22 PM »
I also use google toolbar, it works great for me.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2004, 01:33:25 PM »
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Google tool bar for IE of course.  Have you ever tried it Demo?

That would require me to use IE.

The closest I come is MyIE2, and even that I only use in Windows.  And Google toolbar isn't really necessary on it, since MyIE2 has popup blocking and tabbed browsing built-in, plus a bunch of ad-blocking plugins.
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