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nekote

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FWIW: CookieCop 2 from PC Magazine

Asks if you want a pop-up (since occasionally you do), as well as blocking cookies and sites, as you decide.

Of course, it turns out this nice, short list of sites mostly puts a cookie on my system that says don't put any cookies or do pop-ups!
(So I had to temporarily disable CookieCop2).

And the X10 site says they'll stop - but only for 1 month!
 
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DougyDanger

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Don't the new 'pop under' ads make these programs kill the window you want open? I've noticed more and more of the pop under ads. How do these programs handle them?
 
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Zwingle

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I highly reccomend Pop Up Stopper from Panicware. There is a free version, and a Pro version....look around the web for the ;)workaround;) to get the Pro with no expiration.......works great!
 
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RiOEsq

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<< Don't the new 'pop under' ads make these programs kill the window you want open? I've noticed more and more of the pop under ads. How do these programs handle them? >>




POW will eliminate these pop under windows without doing anything to the active window (the one you are working on). Basically you tell it what windows to eliminate.
 
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lizardboy

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nice post

i'll add a 2nd vote for POW from analogx - great program

if anyone out there wants to swap .dat files just PM me and i'll send you my e-mail
 
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Acme

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I've used POW! for about seven or eight months now, and it works really well. My only "complaint", if you want to call it that, is that it doesn't come with any kind of pre-built database. You have to build your own database as you go. So Day 1 when you install it, you'll still see lots of ads and you'll have to go through their little process of telling POW! to kill those ads in the future. It isn't really a *BIG* deal, just something for you to know going in. Some of those pop-up-prevantion utilities seem to know when a pop-up is occurring and they just kill them all. POW! doesn't work that way.

Of course, the upside to this is that you get to select exactly which ones you want gone. Also, POW! has an "Import" feature for the database, so you can get other people's databases and import them into yours. I haven't looked to see if people are "trading" these databases onlines anywhere, but I'm sure they are.

Acme
 
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SeventySeven

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Very nice... I especially appreciate the X10 being removed!! All day long I get their bs on my screen!!
 
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Hocky

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Here is a little trick that works VERY well. So you have a site you want to block like www.x10.com? Find your hosts file and make the following entry in it.


127.0.0.1 www.x10.com

There should be several spaces in between the IP address and name address.

There is a site around someplace that has a hosts file with a complete list of the most well know pop-up offenders.
 
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ringzero

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I use proxomitron,

It's very good, more sophsticated and it's free. It's a proxy and you can use it to filter out almost anything and it's very customizable. By default it filters out ads/popups/etc. Ever since i installed it i noticed my browsing is faster because i'm not downloading extra junk, and the best part is if its interfering with my browsing, i can disable/bypass it with a simple click.

 
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FeathersMcGraw

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I've been using a freeware utility called Popup Killer. It's Windows-only, but it does support all of the major browsers, as well as Mozilla and Opera. It has both kill and exclude-from-kill lists, downloadable databases, and a default engine which kills popups even if they're not listed (the last feature requires some tweaking to get to work the way you might want it to). Given the amount of web surfing I tend to do, it's probably one of the most useful utilities I've ever installed on my computer.

Popup Killer
 
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pkypkypky

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this should be bumped and continually added to for a while if possible.

i use pop-up-killer

anyone think another program is better than this one from experience?
 
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Stretched

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I too like POPUP Killer. Sometimes it blocks Windows popups or a popup I want to see but it is easily adjusted. If for some reason it gets in the way I turn it off and turn it back on with just s click.
 
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