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  1. Re:Anyone who wants to use their browser, maybe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Opera 7.0 Security Holes ... Fixed

    "IE is so full of holes, and no feasible way to kill popups short of crippling the browser."

    Whatwasat?

  2. Re:edit your hosts.... by CrazyDuke · · Score: 1 · on Next-Gen Pop-up Ads

    I have found AdSheild is an extremely good at defanging ads in IE. It works great when I am forced to use IE for some reason. The only problem is that it is not open source so one can't quite be sure that it doesn't come with little "extras" itself. I have found nothing that indicates it does however.

    It can block banners, flash, java, auto page forwards, and spawned windows (popups/unders). One problem, it will still spawn the popup/under sometimes, but the code for the pop is replaced with a dummy page before it is loaded.

  3. Ad Shield by __aasfhc1949 · · Score: 1 · on Browsers Which Protect Your Privacy?
    If you're interested in blocking ads on the Internet, I suggest Ad Shield. It's very efficent, easy to use, and blocks graphical ads and shockwave ads, and it also blocks pop-ups and unders.

    http://adshield.org

    From their webpage, "AdShield is a freeware banner ad blocker that improves browser performance and usability by suppressing the download and display of ad images, pages and popups."

    The only requirement is IE5.0+ on a Windows machine.

  4. Re:Convince Me by mlong · · Score: 2 · on Phoenix 0.4 Released
    However, IE does not have the same popup blocking abilities Phoenix does. The suggestion you provide, to disable Active Scripting, does stop popups, but it also stops *all* scripting. That is a lot different than what Phoenix does, which specifically stops popups but allows other scripting to work. This finegrained control is a godsend for me, as some sites with popups require other scripting to work. Now I can use them and not see the popups. Also, the ease of whitelisting a site involves nothing more than two mouseclicks. So I stand by my statement on popups; IE does not compare to Phoenix in this regard.

    True it does not have it natively, but there is a freeware app called adshield that works great. I use IE at home with adshield, and Phoenix at work. Though I do wished Phoenix had a similar ad blocker (there is one based on site, but not by URL...so if the contents and ads come from the same server, you're out of luck)

  5. Re:No major reason? by pole · · Score: 1 · on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla

    One can easily block pop-ups and ads in IE without much trouble and without hokey proxy servers/filters. Take a look at AdShield, an excellent and free (as in beer) pop-up and ad blocker for IE.

  6. Re:Who cares? by mcjulio · · Score: 1 · on Andreessen on the Browser Wars

    Popup killing was my only reason for switching to Mozilla from IE. Now that I have AdShield, I'm once again not using Mozilla, again.

  7. Adshield by 0x20 · · Score: 1 · on A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads

    You could also try Adshield (http://www.adshield.org) ... it's free software, sits in the toolbar (and has a sidebar), blocks popups (including popups concealed in document.write()), cookies, images or pages from a list. The list supports substrings, so you can have entries like "/ad." or "/banner/" which will kill all ads on the less imaginatively-named servers out there.

    My only gripe is that the block list file is in some stupid (read unnecessary) binary format and the only way to add to it is to right-click images or links in your browser and select "Add to block list." You can't edit it directly. But Adshield really does work quite well.

    But to really browse ad-free in IE, you need to use a combination of a custom hosts file, web proxy, and something like this. You're really better off switching to Mozilla or Opera.

  8. Adshield by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions

    Install this nifty little program" and you will never see another banner ad. I've been reading slashdot "ad free" for months.