Are Pop-up Ads Driving You Crazy...

For general web surfing I use WebWasher. Free for private home use.

I'm not sure if it's spyware free or not, but then again I don't really care excessively. It blocks web bugs, filters ads from web pages, eliminates almost all popups (only 1 site has ever gotten a popup to pass through it and the WebWasher people couldn't duplicate it), will block java, and has lots of general customizable options. It'll block whole sites if you'd like it to.

It doesn't block everything, I have been to sites that still somehow manage to change my Homepage in my browser or automatically add things to my favorites, I haven't figured out how they do it yet. I thought I had it locked down pretty well.

Overall I rate it well. It is a boon for modem users since it filters out ads BEFORE it downloads the data so it'll improve download times for general surfing, or so they claim. I've only used it on high bandwidth networks.

I rate it very highly but there are some sites where it must be turned off for proper functionality depending on how you configure it.

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