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MadGamer

07-12-2003 15:44

Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Hi, does anyone know on here where i can download a good ad blocker? It has to

block banner ads
block pop ups

If anyone has any good recommendations let me know by posting replies.

WNA

Paul K

07-12-2003 15:57

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Google toolbar does the pop up blocking job for me but there are other tools

Russ	07-12-2003 15:57

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

http://toolbar.google.com/

Been using it for ages and can't fault it :)

trebor

07-12-2003 15:57

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

try this I like it and it works
http://toolbar.google.com/

danielf

07-12-2003 15:57

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Provided you're on a single computer, the following is quite effective against banners and can be used (I think) in conjunction with a popup blocker.

http://accs-net.com/hosts/

Russ	07-12-2003 15:58

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

See a pattern forming here or what?? :D

Paul K

07-12-2003 16:01

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I think the funny thing is how quickly we all responded LOL Were we all bored? ;)

Stuart

07-12-2003 16:05

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I'm just recommending Google Toolbar because I use it as well...

trebor

07-12-2003 16:10

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

looks like google wins then ;) but you could have a look at
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
excellent browser beats ie hands down and blocks all the junk you find when surfing.

chambece

07-12-2003 16:10

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Google for me too!!! It doesn't block banners, but I don't tend to worry about that too mucg

2||Para

07-12-2003 16:13

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

search for adaware 6 Best ad stopper i know quarentines ads so they cant spam you again!

MadGamer

07-12-2003 16:26

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I use the Google toolbar but it doesn't seem to block the banner ads

philip.j.fry

07-12-2003 16:29

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Mozilla

Jarandco

07-12-2003 16:31

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

google toolbar! :D

MadGamer

07-12-2003 16:47

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I have Mozilla Firebird it works a treat. But when i go to my website HERE the image of me i shifted over to the left and it should be in the centre. Whrn i go to view the source of the page it says that the image is in the centre. What do i do about this?

MikeyB

07-12-2003 17:46

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Hi WNA, try this code:

Code:

<html>

<head>

<title>Welcome</title>

</head>

<body bgcolor= "66FFCCAA">

<div align="center"><h1><font face="arial" font color= "0000FF">WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE</font></h1>

<p><a href="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/main.html">CLICK HERE TO ENTER</a></p>

<img src="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/images/Wayne 003.jpg" width="100" height="110" alt="Wayne 003">

</div>

</body>

</html>

Also you may want to try reducing the size of the Wane 003.jpg image, it's 639KB at the moment, and you're only showing it tiny on the page.
Reduce the width to 100 and height 110 in a graphics program (Paint Shop Pro or IrfanView I think can do it)

MadGamer

07-12-2003 17:53

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeyB

Hi WNA, try this code:

Code:

<html>

<head>

<title>Welcome</title>

</head>

<body bgcolor= "66FFCCAA">

<div align="center"><h1><font face="arial" font color= "0000FF">WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE</font></h1>

<p><a href="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/main.html">CLICK HERE TO ENTER</a></p>

<img src="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/images/Wayne 003.jpg" width="100" height="110" alt="Wayne 003">

</div>

</body>

</html>

Thanks for the code it is how it should be now. Back to normall :D

Chimaera

07-12-2003 18:14

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I use this:

http://www.projectbarracuda.com/index2.phtml

Combined with the Google toolbar I never get any pop ups now! :D

MadGamer

07-12-2003 18:29

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeyB

Hi WNA, try this code:

Code:

<html>

<head>

<title>Welcome</title>

</head>

<body bgcolor= "66FFCCAA">

<div align="center"><h1><font face="arial" font color= "0000FF">WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE</font></h1>

<p><a href="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/main.html">CLICK HERE TO ENTER</a></p>

<img src="http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk/images/Wayne 003.jpg" width="100" height="110" alt="Wayne 003">

</div>

</body>

</html>

Im afraid im still having the same problem.

Tricky

07-12-2003 18:32

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

http://www.tooto.com/popup-killer

I use the software from the above link - $25 but it's the dogs dodahs!

MadGamer

07-12-2003 21:39

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

I have Mozilla 1.5 and was wondering how do i set the defult homepage and where do i go to do this?

EDIT I have sorted the problem now.

Ramrod

07-12-2003 21:51

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

spywareblaster
stops spyware being put on your 'puter. I used to get 20-30 bits of spyware when I scanned with ad-aware. Now I get 0 or 1!

MikeyB

07-12-2003 22:11

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Quote:

Originally Posted by WNA

Im afraid im still having the same problem.

Works fine here in Firebird, apart from the image still takes ages to load!

MadGamer

08-12-2003 18:31

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeyB

Works fine here in Firebird, apart from the image still takes ages to load!

Im using Mozilla.

MikeyB

08-12-2003 21:40

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Quote:

Originally Posted by WNA

Im using Mozilla.

The browser in Mozilla & firebird are the same.
And it looks 100% fine in my Mozilla as well.
Also looks fine in Opera & Netscape

It's probably cached in your browser, empty your local cache and try again (cant remember how you do that in Mozilla, but it's in options somewhere)

MadGamer

08-12-2003 21:57

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

Its back to normal now.

MetaWraith

08-12-2003 21:59

Re: Anyone know of a free downloadable ad blocker?

www.myie2.com a wrapper for IE with too many great features to mention, but here's two.

1) Create a proxy list and choose which one to use, no browser restart needed.
2) One heck of an ad/popup killer,easily customisable

www.proxomitron.info
a pretty darn good FREE multipurpose proxy, ad, popup and web filtering, control program

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