Directory of Advertising Resources

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Proxy like tools/methods designed to filter out advertisements such as ad banners or pop-up ads.

Resources in This Category

• Ad Blocker for IE

  http://www.ie7pro.com/ad-blocker.html
  Blocks all forms of advertising.

• Ad Blocking via CSS

  http://www.floppymoose.com/
  How to use CSS rules to block ads. The technique works for any Gecko-based browser and for Apple's browser, Safari.  It even works with the Thunderbird mail client.

• Ad Extinguisher

  http://www.bhatt.id.au/adext/
  Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Small proxy that blocks banner ads and some web bugs, also freezes animated gifs.

• Ad Filtering programs

  http://www.flourish.org/adremove/
  A list of advert filtering applications.

• Ad Muncher

  http://www.admuncher.com/
  Shareware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. Small, patch for common web browsers. Removes banners, buttons, popups.

• AdSubtract

  http://www.intermute.com/products/adsubtract.html
  Freeware and commercial versions for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Runs in browsers java virtual machine and kills ads and cookies, slowish.

• Adzapper

  http://www.zaplet.org/adzapper/
  Freeware for RedHat Linux 6.2/Unix/Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source rule-based filtering proxy written in Python to transform banner ads into transparent GIFs.

• Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

  http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
  Free for all platforms. A hosts file that blocks most major advertisers, parasites, hijackers and unwanted search engines.

• Cut the Crap (CTC)

  http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC/
  Freeware for Unix/Linux. Proxy-like open-source daemon written in Python to filter out ads for dialup users.

• Gorilla Design Studio Presents: The Hosts File

  http://accs-net.com/hosts/
  Free for all platforms. A hosts file for blocking the hostnames of major advertisers.

• gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking

  http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/
  How to use Mozilla and Firefox to create custom CSS rules to hide certain elements based on their attributes and values.

• Guidescope

  http://www.guidescope.com/
  Free for non-commercial use, for Linux/Sparc/Solaris/Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000. Proxy that filters ads by pattern matching and blacklist. Also filters cookies and referers.

• hpHOSTS

  http://hosts-file.net/
  Freely downloadable community managed hosts file for ad and malware site blocking.

• JunkBuster

  http://internet.junkbuster.com/
  Freeware for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/OS2/BeOS/Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Web proxy that filters banner ads, cookies, and referer tracking. Supports wafers and User-Agent spoofing.

• nobanner

  http://cornvalley.peak.org/nobanner/
  Freeware for Unix/Linux. Web proxy written in Perl which rewrites HTML on the fly to remove ads.

• PithHelmet

  http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php
  An extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to allow the user to control the blocking of ad images, Flash, Shockwave or midi loops.

• Rabbit

  http://rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net/
  Freeware for any OS with JAVA. Proxy designed to speed surfing over slow links, by removing adverts and compressing the data stream using gzip and jpegs. Innovative approach.

• Squid

  http://www.squid-cache.org/
  Freeware for Unix. Caching proxy which can block ads. You can also use squidGuard and SleezeBall to help do this.

• WebFilter

  http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/NoShit/
  Freeware for Unix. Web advertising filter based on Cern's httpd web server.

• WebMask

  http://www.flourish.org/webmask/
  Freeware program for Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source program to remove Web ads. No longer under development by author.

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