Introduction

The internet has become for webmasters and companies a way of running/improving their company with the possibility of millions viewing their site on a regular basis. But since it costs money to run these sites, and trying to breakeven with expenses, banner ads and popups are sources of income they need to pay off their expenses.

But what about those people who go on companies? websites to try to find information about a product or read up reviews on certain items? Chances are that these sites have quite a few ads thus increasing the amount of time it would take to load a particular site.

People are fed up with advertising because they hear it whether they watch TV, listen to the radio or even surf the web. But it?s a fact of life we as people have to deal with and it helps companies to pay off their own expenses at the same time.

But what if there was a way to stop these annoying popups and remove the unwanted ads to make sites load faster? It is music to people?s ears; although I. myself don?t find banner ads so annoying as long as they aren?t those flashing ones but popups are a different story. There are plenty of programs out there claiming to remove ads from websites and try to stop all popups to the best of the program?s capability but this review is going to cover a program called Ad Muncher.

Functionality

Ad Muncher is an ad-removing and popup blocking program that will eliminate all sources of advertising whether it?ll be on websites or better yet IM tools! Today all instant messaging programs come with advertising whether it is AIM, MSN, ICQ or Yahoo! because the possibility of a great income stream from ads is likely and also it helps cover the cost of bandwidth when chatting to people.

Ad Muncher has lots of options to choose from to help keep your netviewing more secure, and less tedious. Ad Muncher comes with a set of pre-defined sites that are ?offenders? by using popups, annoying ads and what not to create the best viewing experience for the user. People can also send in their lists of ?offending? websites to help contribute to the cause of fighting annoying websites.

There are some neat tools that are provided like IP scramble where when in use with a proxy server, your real IP address isn?t logged so they won?t know if you went to the site or not. Some other great features include: disabling of colored scrollbars, remove background music and much more so you can control what you want to see and not let the designer themselves control what you want.

You have the ability to create filters to also block stuff that you yourself might find annoying on websites and creates the best viewing experience for yourself. There is also and update feature to help keep your program up to date and also its filtering options.

Conclusion

Ad Muncher is a program that has many options to choose from and makes sure the user wants to view sites the way the person wants and not the designer themselves. Not only does this program block popups, it also removes ads which many people find annoying along with popups.

I feel that many people will enjoy the benefits of using this program; especially those who use Internet Explorer as their main browser since it doesn?t have popup blocking capabilities like Opera or Mozilla does.