Thread: Ad Blocker

Can anyone suggest a free adblocker

I am using microsoft security essentils/windows vista Home premium

Use firefox with AdBlockPlus addon....

Originally Posted by hitler517

Use firefox with AdBlockPlus addon....

I am using Internet Explorer

Install Shaplus Bandwidth Meter, right click the system tray and disable Flash and/or images.

Check the screen shot

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Install Shaplus Bandwidth Meter, right click the system tray and disable Flash and/or images.

Check the screen shot

In the pic those are enabled

You want me to enable or disable?

It is enabled by default. You can disable it and make sure that you have turned off Flash and Images. But I strongly recommend Firefox /Chrome / Opera. IE is good, but others are better. Specially Firefox with lots of add ons. Hope you have heard about WOT. Quite handy if you are a Googler. Chrome also has it.

I think this will work

Adblock for Internet Explorer version IE7, IE8 and IE9 - Simple Adblock

Lot more from Google Search " Ad blocker for internet explorer "

Thanks a lot dear friend

Always Welcome

Originally Posted by tomydelhi

I am using Internet Explorer

Don't!


Joking. Of course it is your choice and freedom to use it, even to prefer it if you want to . I'd find it hard to give up Firefox, not because it is firefox, or because it is not Microsoft (although that may have started it) but because I am used to it now, for years and years and years.

Originally Posted by Nick_H

Don't!


Joking. Of course it is your choice and freedom to use it, even to prefer it if you want to . I'd find it hard to give up Firefox, not because it is firefox, or because it is not Microsoft (although that may have started it) but because I am used to it now, for years and years and years.

Which one is better - Chrome or Firefox
I would like to switch from IE

Originally Posted by tomydelhi

Which one is better - Chrome or Firefox
I would like to switch from IE

Chrome is faster, good GUI, ergonomically brilliant. The main drawback was the absence of add ons. Now it has been address to a limit. Most add on features for Firefox are also available in Chrome.

Firefox is the light on resources, plenty of addons and quite stable.

It is between choosing two legs. Both are good. I am using both. I use Chrome for trusted sites and Firefox for casual browsing. I am now typing this from Chrome.

It is a good strategy. Keep one browser only for safe sites. Helps when we need to try a risk free browser.

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Chrome is faster, good GUI, ergonomically brilliant. The main drawback was the absence of add ons. Now it has been address to a limit. Most add on features for Firefox are also available in Chrome.

Firefox is the light on resources, plenty of addons and quite stable.

It is between choosing two legs. Both are good. I am using both. I use Chrome for trusted sites and Firefox for casual browsing. I am now typing this from Chrome.

It is a good strategy. Keep one browser only for safe sites. Helps when we need to try a risk free browser.

Downloaded and installed both, started using firefox too
Till now it is good going, learning process is also easy
Thanks for the suggestions.

Pleasure ....................

Originally Posted by tomydelhi

Downloaded and installed both, started using firefox too...

That's the only way to go: try them and see!

There's Opera, of course. To Opera fans, there is no other browser in the world and we are all mad to use anything else! :lol: They might be right: I haven't looked at it for over a decade.

I'd admit that my chosen browser, FireFox, is not the quickest thing around in Windows, and that it takes up a big percentage of system resources. However, in Linux, it starts quickly and runs smoothly.

Don't go overboard with FireFox addins. It's tempting to install everything that looks good, but that will affect performance. You wanted to block ads, so ad-block-plus is the obvious one. I use a few more, but if I had to choose just one more, it would be Flashblock. No more videos that just play (or at least waste your bandwidth by downloading) whether you want them or not, and you can also save your eyes from being strained by a lot of useless animated stuff.

Enjoy your new browser(s)

Installed ad-block-plus

Thanks for the suggestions

Is there a way to block ad's in youtube ? i'm so sick of it.

As I don't ever see any, I asume that my Adblock Plus must be doing just that!

The only other relevant thing I use is Flashblock, but I leave that off for YouTube, else it just extra clicks to view what I went there to see in the first place.

Adblock Plus seems to have just about everything covered, except for sites that sell their own advertising, and the Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus may help with that: point to something and block it.

I have problems with The Onion and the BBC News site, which try not to play their videos at all if I block their ads. It's dependent on Firefox/Flash version (or something) and I had to turn off ABP on the BBC site to watch the Japan quake coverage.

It might be a late reply, but please go through the following:

Originally Posted by Admin

Do you guys realize that the tons of content that is published on the internet is mostly financed by the advertising revenue? More and more people using ad blocking scripts will reduce revenues for those who create content in the long run and the quality of content will come down with time. Those who have a ready answer like wikipedia and stuff well... You just dont have any idea what the different market forces are... wiki is a pile of untrustworthy content which any tom dick or harry can go and change.
Ultimately its all about material gains and by chocking the circle you are unknowingly doing a lot of harm to the cycle. A few million people using adblocks wont make any difference but imagine if everyone on the net started doing that then most of your favorite sites will be shut down and so will this forum...
There is a parallel economy running on the net... let it run

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Yep. At times you get interesting ads too. I end up in buying a netbook after I saw an Ad (Olive Zipbook)which appeared frequently on Google ads. Also it was nice experience ( Loh Purush ) ads during the election. You get notified of Airtel , Vodafone etc's most recent offer in Google. Why turn such an useful source of information. Blocking flash content and image are fine but blocking all others other than the one we are expecting won't be good. Just my opinion.

I am not against advts.
I just wanted a popup blocker, which is irritating

Originally Posted by tomydelhi

I am not against advts.
I just wanted a popup blocker, which is irritating

Pop-up blocker is enabled by default in all major browsers.
Pop up blocker