It uses the same lists that ABP does, though I'm not sure if it is limited to certain ones or how easy it is to add any extra lists (I used it on default settings for a trial run). Adguard Freemium Adguard AdBlocker blocks all types of advertising on all web pages, even on Facebook, Youtube, and others. ![]() ABP can be paid to let ads through, AdMuncher I don't believe has gone down that road yet.ĪdFender is like a free AdMuncher, but last I looked at it I don't think it can handle Https connections and blocking items it misses is a bit difficult. Open Source Adblock Plus is browser extension which will block Ads and popups while browsing the internet. ABP has to rely on browser permissions and features to get the job done where AdMuncher does its job at levels below that. I believe that to be because there is far more testing done on potential entries in a list than there is with "The user wants it, throw it in there"-ABP.ĪdMuncher works very well with all browsers, ABP, supported or not, does not. AdMuncher is nowhere near as aggressive and therefore prone to screwing up websites than ABP is. ABP is constantly being updated, version 5 of Admuncher has reached Duke Nukem-levels of waiting for its release. ABP can handle Https, Admuncher, still, cannot. ABP is open source, AdMuncher I don't believe is (could be wrong) Neither offer decent support via their forums. To those who have used it, and ideally those who have used it and some alternatives (like Adblock Plus back then) so they are personally familiar with the differences, what would you say about it? I'm asking purely out of curiosity (I don't intend to change from what I'm using but I'd like to hear what made it appealing back then and if you found it nice or not).AdMuncher is too expensive for what it is, ABP is free. The only ad blockers I ever heard of were either browser extensions, or feature list padding by anti-virus/anti-malware/similar suites. It seems it was created 14 years ago and has a website design that dates it to the Windows XP days (I say that a good way I miss when websites had color and personality in their design, even if the "go to" look was Blue skies and some clouds with grass like the Bliss wallpaper haha). If you move the layout within the first couple seconds to place an ad where something else just was to cheat a click on an ad in, I don't tolerate that. ![]() Categories:Security & Privacy Web Browsers windowsMacLinuxWeb / CloudAndroidiPhoneChromeFirefox More Info Adblock Plus Open Source Adblock Plus is browser extension which will block Ads and popups while browsing the internet. If I am interested in an ad, I will click on it. Ad Muncher including commercial, freemium, free and open source alternatives. If I go to click somewhere and the page layout changes, I stop visiting that website. Oh, and pages that load in a way that moves content around. Also pages that are more ads than content (looking at you, PC Gamer). If a website mandates these, I don't visit it. Pop-up ads, ones that play sound (either automatically, or on hover), or video ads are things I don't tolerate. The day it stops working there is the day I stop watching non-embedded Youtube videos. Other than when I watch a video from a website where I have Adblock plus disabled, I have never seen a single ad on Youtube, and it is wonderful. Some time later (I can't remember when, but it was still in the pre-Windows 7 days), I started using AdBlock Plus with it. I've been using it ever since, so apparently I've been using it for over 18 years now. I figured rather than opening Notepad or whatever to save posts in, I'd just try the browser called Firefox everyone was raving about. Guess what? The annoying part was, whenever it crashed, it also cleared the contents of the clipboard for some reason. ![]() After it had done it a number of times, I started copying any post that wasn't real short into the clipboard before posting in case it had crashed. I started using Firefox before the 1.0 release in the Windows XP days, because Internet Explorer crashed one too many times whenever trying to post to forums.
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