|
|
|
User Rating: Rated by: |
Very Good (4.5/5) 289 user(s) |
|
|
|
Softpedia Editor's Review for Ad Muncher
|
Powerful advert and popup blocking system for all browsers
Written by Bogdan Popa on December 9th, 2011
Most browsers available on the Internet nowadays come with built-in ad and pop-up blockers, so why use a different application for this purpose? Because Ad Muncher has so many features that it's undoubtedly able to make the whole browsing experience a lot more pleasant.
The application is able to filter website data and block unwanted content, regardless if we're referring to advertisements, links, images, sounds or various scripts.
Ad Muncher runs separately but integrates perfectly into most browsers, including Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, creating a special right click menu option to block content on the go.
Right clicking on a website gives you the power to block a given link, an image, a whole frame or disable filters on the entire page. In addition, there's a special option to report the page and thus help the developer make the app better in the next releases.
The configuration screen on the other hand lets you remove music and sound, background images, colored scroll bars, bookmark scripts, automatic reloads, window resizing, browser status bar changes and even address icons.
Of course, you can configure the way the app handles advertisements, so there's an option to leave small text-only adverts alone and replace removed images with a description of the image.
As for the popups, Ad Muncher blocks them all, including automatic javascript alerts and messenger service popups, showing you a notice in the browser status bar when a new popup is blocked.
Ad Muncher is impressively easy to use, but it has so many features that you may spend even a half an hour setting it up. But after that you will definitely know that no advertisement or popup will ever see daylight on your computer.
So all in all, given how many features it boasts, Ad Muncher comes with a fair price and it's just the right way to improve the browsing experience. It's free to try though, so why not giving it a try right now?
Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Ad Muncher
|
Ad Muncher description
|
Here are some key features of "Ad Muncher":
· Blocks adverts in all browsers.
· Blocks unwanted popups in all browsers.
· Blocks adverts in programs like ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, etc.
· Speeds up page loading, thanks to the missing adverts and popups.
· Blocks many annoying site behaviors.
· Filters quickly and reliably, thanks to six years of constant development and feedback from users.
· Includes extensive options for those who like to tinker, allowing you to remove anything that annoys you.
Requirements:
· Pentium 60MHz
· 32 MB RAM
· 2 MB disk space
Limitations:
· 30-days trial What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed potential crash from 64-bit patches under Windows XP.
· Implemented code to allow us to release list updates as betas for testing before going out to a wider audience. To receive these, enable the option to "Load development versions..." on the "Updates" tab.
· Added option to the list for "Automatic check frequency" named "Automatic", which will let the server decide how often updates should be checked for based on recent release schedules.
· Many improvements to how the helper script is packaged and inserted, for example it can now be updated via the filter list.
· Improved removal statistic recording.
· Fixed possible crash when exporting configuration.
· Fixed lack of filtering on some sites.
· Reduced the number of changes Ad Muncher's helper script needs to make to certain anchor tags to avoid conflicts with some sites, eg: Vimeo.
· Fixed possible breaking of the helper script if the user switches between different versions of the betas.
· Improved method used for replacing scrip...
|
|