Ad blockers

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logo Adblock Plus Adblock Plus
logo AdBlocker Ultimate AdBlocker Ultimate
logo AdFender AdFender
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logo Ghostery Ghostery
logo Ad Muncher Ad Muncher
logo AdwCleaner AdwCleaner
logo SpyHunter SpyHunter
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These days, it's impossible to imagine using the Internet without constant pop-up advertising messages, especially if the site is popular. Most often, advertising is a banner, when a person clicks on it he gets to the partner's site. As a rule, everyone has long been accustomed to advertising, but if there is an opportunity to remove it, why not do it. Moreover, this annoyance interferes and appears at the most inopportune moment when working in a browser or search for some important information. That's why ad blocking has become a very popular topic of late. The increased flow of ads slows down the browser, causes irritation to users and distracts from the useful content of sites.

Sites use advertising to offset their own costs for staff, equipment, fast servers, and fast CDNs, which are quite expensive. Some sites, in order not to lose rankings, use it moderately and do not overload their content.

It's worth admitting that the most popular extensions for Chrome, Firefox and other browsers will still be blocker programs, and so far the situation will remain unchanged in the near future. These programs remove ads and increase the bandwidth of sites, reducing the amount of data transferred. Privacy is increased by blocking scripts that track user activity.

Next, we'll look at programs that are designed to block pop-ups and annoying messages.

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Adguard is one of the best and most popular ad blockers on websites and applications. It is one of the few programs that block ads of any programs after adding an exe-file in the settings. However, that's not the only feature Adguard provides, in addition to that it presents anti-tracking, anti-phishing and parental control features.

Pros

    • Protect users from scammers, viruses and Internet surveillance
    • Ensuring maximum comfort while using the Internet by eliminating annoying ads
    • Checking web pages visited by children and blocking unsafe, inappropriate resources and adult websites
    • Saves time/money and traffic by speeding up web page loading by blocking ads before sites start loading
    • User-friendly interface

Cons

    • Strong effect on OS boot speed

Obtrusive advertising on the Internet, at times, is so disturbing that it takes hours a day when trying to find useful information on the subject of interest, watch videos and other things. And these ads are not always useful. Adblock Plus will help you deal with intrusive ads that it itself recognizes as malicious. If the program blocks important content on the site, then this site can always be put in the white list of the application as an exception. So in the future, this site will be ignored by the program. But it is better to do this only with topics that are 100% trustworthy.

Pros

    • Blocks video ads
    • Simple and convenient functionality
    • It's completely free
    • You can monitor your browsing, block viruses and stop tracking
    • Blocks ads on social networks

Cons

    • Adblock Plus marked certain ads as safe and does not block them

AdBlocker Ultimate is a blocker program for Windows that allows the user to view "clean" content without ads, pop-ups, third-party trackers and other side processes that distract and slow down the computer. Unlike a simple browser extension, it works in all programs on your computer.

Pros

    • Free distribution of the product
    • Availability of open source code available on GitHub
    • Built-in anti-tracker
    • Support of most popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Yandex
    • Browser
    • No account registration required
    • Ability to selectively block items on the page
    • Create your own filters

Cons

    • Lack of support for acceptable advertising, which is the only means of existence for many websites

Installing AdFender will save you from having to install browser extensions that remove ads and protect you from spyware. The manufacturer encourages you to protect yourself from adware and intrusions into your privacy affecting system performance and computer security. The program has two versions: free and paid.

Pros

    • Blocking adware in instant messaging applications
    • Blocking ad content in almost all popular browsers
    • Built-in filters EasyList and RuAdList, which allow you to quickly and efficiently cut off unwanted ads from websites
    • Ad blocking in torrent clients

If we consider other similar programs, they have one very important disadvantage - they block everything indiscriminately. Not everything, of course, but some browser pages are displayed incorrectly, as some pictures and additional buttons are blocked. Also, for example, adblock plus or adguard, do not allow you to download torrent files, identifying them as malicious. This is very inconvenient because sometimes the content the user wants is blocked, and unfortunately it is impossible to configure it. uBlock Origin works differently, it opens up the possibility of flexible settings in blocking content.

Pros

    • It blocks the most harmful and annoying ads
    • Uses less RAM and puts less strain on the CPU
    • Free
    • Very easy to install

Cons

    • It does not work for all web browsers

Ghostery is a program that integrates with computer browsers and blocks all third-party trackers to ensure privacy and personal data protection.

Pros

    • Possibility to create a user account in order to synchronize Ghostery settings on other devices
    • Two tracker view modes - simple and detailed
    • Support of most popular browsers
    • Export/import of settings
    • Free

Cons

    • Lack of creating your own filters

Internet surfing is inevitably accompanied by advertising banners and hidden links, getting rid of annoying advertising content is not so - easy. Internet browser capabilities are not always able to fully protect the user from unnecessary information, but by installing a special utility Ad Muncher this problem can be completely eliminated. Installation of the software will not take much time, and the English-language user interface is simple and understandable even with a basic knowledge of the language.

Pros

    • Integration with web browsers, installation of the toolbar
    • Faster loading by disabling ads
    • Monitoring autodialers, as well as spyware, adware and web-bug
    • Download Ad Muncher in Russian is also possible

Cons

    • In the menu there is a useless section "IP encryption", which offers to install Tor

When working online and installing various updates, adware viruses often infiltrate the system and appear as unexpected banner ads that pop up on the desktop or while surfing. It can be difficult to eliminate them with your operating system's built-in capabilities, and a special utility, Adw Cleaner, is used to eliminate the most hidden malicious programs.

Pros

    • Simple and intuitive interface
    • Fast search for unwanted elements embedded in your system
    • Multilingual interface of AdwCleaner
    • Portability - doesn't require installation
    • You can download AdwCleaner for free
    • Does not have any ads built in

Cons

    • You will need to close all programs before launching.
    • Restart your computer after cleaning

Working on the network carries the risk of penetration into the system of various malicious and virus programs, advertising plug-ins that occupy the operating memory of the device and reduce, if not completely block the productive work of the computer.

Pros

    • System Protection
    • Anti-malware protection
    • Personal infection correction system
    • User-friendly interface
    • Antivirus database updates
    • Exceptions
    • Compact OS

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the global network for business, it is involved not only in business processes, but also in production, training and other areas of society. But virus attacks, uncontrolled access to Internet surfing, security gateways and other system administration parameters are solved by the Traffic Inspector platform.

Pros

    • Organization of Internet access
    • Control the use of connections
    • Ad blocking, site and file blocking
    • Security and antivirus protection
    • Channel load management
    • Cost saving
    • Spam Filtering