Advertising companies have long been using the resources of the Internet network for their own purposes. Sometimes the information offered to us from monitors is useful and interesting. But more often than not, Internet traffic is spent on downloading useless banners and advertising links. And if harmless text ads or a static image are taken quite calmly, then annoying banners offering pornography viewing or recommending getting rich in one click are annoying madly. Undesirable commercials are especially unpleasant when a child has access to a computer and does not yet fully understand the danger behind such banners.
What are popups
Pop-ups are a very annoying form of advertising that forcibly corns the eyes with absolutely unnecessary information. Inexperienced users often click on the cross, which, in theory, should have removed this muck from the screen. But everything happens exactly the opposite: the user clicks on the very link that he was trying so hard to avoid. A real cross that covers the banner may be invisible or appear in a minute. Everything is done so that the user follows the link, because it is the frequency of clicks that determines the success and effectiveness of the advertising banner. Such deception allows you to promote sites and products in a very annoying way.
In order for protection from advertising to be effective, users use quite a lot of programs and scripts that more or less successfully block unwanted banners and terminate viral links. The most effective methods for blocking unwanted ads are described below.
General purpose anti-banners
Ad Muncher is used as the most effective protection against advertising today. Works with all popular browsers. When immersed in the Internet environment, the program prevents pop-ups, banners and other unwanted ads from appearing on websites. The most popular features that install Ad Muncher are:
- prohibition of the appearance on monitors of any kind of advertising images, links and pop-ups;
- Elimination of advertising in such software products as Morpheus, PalTalk, ICQ, LimeWire, Bearshare and others;
- a significant acceleration of work in Internet applications, instant loading of sites by blocking external elements, which, as a rule, are temporary advertising in nature;
- blocking unnecessary changes in selected sites, namely, eliminating hidden elements, identifying and blocking malicious scripts, spyware and other unwanted developments of the "geniuses" of online advertising;
- A constantly updated filtering system, in the updating of which users who have already installed Ad Muncher are directly involved.
More information about this product can be found on the manufacturer's website.
Adguard is a persistent anti-banner, very popular among users. This effective ad protection program works with all popular browsers. Automatically detects pop-ups and eliminates them from monitors. This software product was developed on the principle of an anti-virus program, therefore, it requires daily updates. It starts immediately when you turn on the computer. This protection against pop-up ads successfully blocks phishing attacks that steal sensitive data, passwords for social networks and email. It complements antivirus utilities very well. This ad protection works confidently even on slower computers.
Antibanners for Mozilla Firefox
One of the most popular programs among users of a famous browser with a fox is called NoScript. This extension was invented by Firefox developers. It blocks the execution of Java Flash Javascript scripts and other potentially threatening components of HTML pages. The user can automatically in the settings allow the use of the script on a particular page. Thus, the user makes “white lists” of those pages on which pop-up ads are allowed. Another very useful feature of NoScript is to protect your computer from XSS attacks. This browser protection is one of the most popular Firefox extensions.
Another firefox program that blocks pop-ups is called Adblock Plus. The program is configured by the user independently. When an unwanted banner appears, the user just click on it with the right mouse button, select the Adblock Plus option, and the advertisement will disappear from the computer monitor forever. You can also fill in with asterisks part of the Internet address of unwanted advertising - then any banner leading to this site is automatically blocked. When using Adblock Plus for the first time, you can add a subscription to the filter list, and most of the advertising junk will never appear on the monitor.
The official site offers to install a program for free, which is regularly updated by the developers of Mozilla Firefox.
Antibanners for Opera
Protection against advertising in the Opera browser occurs with Anti-banner for Opera.
This is a free program created by Opera developers. Its main functions are as follows:
- Three ways in which protection against pop-up ads on various sites is carried out, at the user's choice;
- the ability to create your own filters;
- increase the speed of downloading files on some file hosting services;
- Quick download of video and audio files on popular Internet resources.
The use of anti-banner reduces the use of traffic and speeds up the loading of the required pages and databases.
Antibanners for Internet Explorer
Pop-up Blocker Free was developed for Windows XP and later. The advantages of this plugin are that you can set protection against advertising using 4 modes of operation: absolute blocking of pop-up banners, removal of ads in the list, prohibition of clicking on the link with the keywords in the address of the advertising site, the allowed number of open banners in one time period . Pop-up Blocker blocks products such as Background sounds, Inline videos, Flash Ads, JAVA Applets. The program is supplemented by all modern means of protecting confidential data, saving the specified proxy server settings and other useful functions.
CleanMyPC's Free PopUp Blocker is a free pop-up ad blocker. After installation, the program’s shortcut appears on the toolbar of the Internet Explorer browser, and then this plug-in automatically blocks pop-up ads and ads that are not needed by the user.
Antibanners for the Google Chrome Browser Family
The Google Toolbar, among other tools that are interesting to the user, also contains a function for blocking unnecessary sites and banners. A significant drawback of this protection method is that, together with the blocker, the user has to install a whole list of various options that may or may not be needed to work in this browser. But when configured correctly, the Google Toolbar performs the functions of protecting the browser to "excellent."
Ad blocking by internal OS resources
Experienced users can block banners and viral ads through the settings of the Windows OS. Computer protection from advertising is possible with the appropriate registry settings, as well as managing the security policy of this OS. Detailed information on how to protect the browser by using internal Windows resources can be seen on the official user support site. Windows developers give detailed instructions on how to protect against advertising.
System Security Checks
After selecting and installing a program that protects the browser from pop-ups, you should restart your computer. A detailed check of the effectiveness of the anti-advertising products can be checked on the sites-testers of programs. If the protection against advertising has proven to be effective, then you can be sure that pop-ups and annoying information will no longer be annoying, and now nothing can stop the user from relaxing and working on the Internet.