Blocking ads

[KoolDrew]

Does anybody know of something I can us to block ads? I do not care if it has to ber an int he background. As long as it does not take up much recources.

Also don't say use the extension in Firefox because I do not, nor do i wish to use Firefox.

 

[junkerman123]

after firefox google toolbar is probably your best bet, it has an automatic pop-up blocker. but get firefox

 

[n0cmonkey]

Use an extension with Mozilla.

 

[KoolDrew]

I use Opera and i do not want to switch to Firefox. I like Opera a lot better. The only thing I did like about Firefox better were the extensions such as adblock.

 

[kickerf1]

And if you havent' made the transition for Internet Explorer to Firefox yet, use the SP2 pop up blocker which is better than google pop up blocker. I know because I have tested them both thru various experiments.

Thanks.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: kickerf1
And if you havent' made the transition for Internet Explorer to Firefox yet, use the SP2 pop up blocker which is better than google pop up blocker. I know because I have tested them both thru various experiments.

Thanks.

I am using Opera...

 

[Schadenfroh]

For the Adblock firefox extension, try this premade list:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1631248&enterthread=y

It is updated often and it blocks the bulk of the ads that i would normally see.

 

[theAnimal]

Proxomitron

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: theAnimal
Proxomitron

Thanks. That works perfect.

 

[kamper]

Obviously you've found a solution already but I just wanted to add one thing.

Opera has an ini file somewhere that you can put adblock patterns into (or at least it did when I tried it out in the 7.x days). I just copied my firefox adblock patterns in and it worked fine, although I never had expressions more complicated than * matching. Incidentally, the difficulty of doing this (edit text file, restart browser as compared to right-click and block in firefox) is one of the big things that kept me from sticking with Opera for longer than a week.

Anyways, not sure where to find details anymore but I originally stumbled on them by googling "opera adblock".

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: theAnimal
Proxomitron

Thanks. That works perfect.

Any extension for Opera that does not take up system resources like Proxomitron that i can just use as a plug in for opera (almost identical to FF's adblock) also, any extension for Opera that does the same thing as Cookie Culler? I am giving it a try.

 

[mattsaccount]

I vote for Proxomitron--thanks to its support for regular expressions, there are a huge number of 3rd party add-ons that make it work very well.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: mattsaccount
I vote for Proxomitron--thanks to its support for regular expressions, there are a huge number of 3rd party add-ons that make it work very well.

Web Cleaner is a bit more updated than proxomitron and is opensource, it is another proxy based internet filter like proxomitron. But i need something built into opera because i run xp 64bit and i dont think either of these work with it.

 

[duragezic]

I've used the HOSTS file from mvps.org for about a year now and am very satisfied with it. I also run Firefox with Adblock for pages I visit often and don't want their ads showing up. I also have some sort of script in my user.js that I got from Mozilla.org for blocking ads, but it may've messed up some pages sorta so I think at the moment I commented it out. With these, I rarely see ads and haven't even bothered to install a spyware scanner because it comes up empty (other than few misc. not really malware things) every time!

 

[jemow2]

This is what I use for blocking ads in Opera. Works real well, I import the filterset.g rules for adblock into this, and it blocks ads just as good as AdBlock.

Oh, and it's also free