Ad Muncher 4.81 Build 31376 Final

Rated 50/50 by pjb at Mar 19, 2011

Great application. Have been using for many years. Development team respond to enquiries promptly. This application is one of the first to be installed after a fresh install. I can't recommend this highly enough.

Rated 10/50 by Input Overload at Mar 20, 2011

As I can't remember the last time I had an invasive ad that caused me any concern the question is do you need to shell out £'s for programs such as this with such good free ad blockers around? I think not, there was a time for this program but that time has now passed, It's an (expensive) anachronism. Most of the reviews on this page are by die-hard ad muncher users who have no idea what an ad muncher free life is really like as they have used it for years. You really don't need it anymore. It safe to come out and play, yes really! Spend your money on something really useful like 'Malwarebytes'. war593122 - BTW I do! Can't stand people who give crap 5 stars.

Rated 10/50 by ssb at Mar 27, 2011

@war593122: Years now most websites serve http compressed content (huge bandwidth saving), make use of caching control headers, persistent network connections and pipelining. Well guess what; All these essential performance and bandwidth optimizations (and much more) are lost when using AdMuncher simply because HTTP1.1 not supported. So next time, don't criticize other users opinions if you're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. You better blame AdMuncher's lazy developer for non being able to keep his ten years old promises.

Rated 10/50 by ssb at Mar 27, 2011

@war593122: Years now most websites serve http compressed content (huge bandwidth saving), make use of caching control headers, persistent network connections and pipelining. Guess what; All these essential performance and bandwidth optimizations (and much more) are missing when using AdMuncher simply because it still only supports HTTP1.0. So next time, don't criticize other users opinions if you're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. You better blame AdMuncher's lazy developer for non being able to keep his ten years old promises.

Rated 10/50 by FixXxeR at May 8, 2011

Like the last two reviewers, I can now confirm after extensive testing that browsing WITHOUT ad muncher is noticeably faster on many http 1.1 enabled sites. I went for 1 month without using ad muncher on my systems, despite owning several licenses, and can confirm without a doubt that loading pages without ad muncher, even with advertisements, is faster. Now, these are not breakneck differences, but they are noticeable. That said, various web features which I did not know existed are now present and I can actually make use of them. Google Instant is present and works just as it should. There are several facebook features which now popped up that I did not know existed before. These are but a few of the things I have found while browsing without ad muncher. As a web server administrator, I can also tell you that techniques such as persistent connections, pipelining, and content compression can and DO speed up page loading times and make the experience better for the end user. By not supporting this decade old technology, you are hurting site administrators and forcing them to pay more because the server providers hosting these sites are getting increased load and have to charge more to their customers. This increase in usage and charges on the web hosting end will be off-loaded on the site administrator which will in turn be passed on to the user after it gets too high. Serving up an 8kb compressed page over a 32kb uncompressed page DOES make a difference. 1/5 until http 1.1 and compression support is added.

Rated 10/50 by FixXxeR at May 8, 2011

Like the last two reviewers, I can now confirm after extensive testing that browsing WITHOUT ad muncher is noticeably faster on many http 1.1 enabled sites. I went for 1 month without using ad muncher on my systems, despite owning several licenses, and can confirm without a doubt that loading pages without ad muncher, even with advertisements, is faster. Now, these are not breakneck differences, but they are noticeable. That said, various web features which I did not know existed are now present and I can actually make use of them. Google Instant is present and works just as it should. There are several facebook features which now popped up that I did not know existed before. These are but a few of the things I have found while browsing without ad muncher. I can also tell you that techniques such as persistent connections, pipelining, and content compression can and DO speed up page loading times and make the experience better for the end user. By not supporting this decade old technology, you are hurting site administrators and forcing them to pay more because the server providers hosting these sites are getting increased load and have to charge more to their customers. This increase in usage and charges on the web hosting end will be off-loaded on the site administrator which will in turn be passed on to the user after it gets too high. Serving up an 8kb compressed page over a 32kb uncompressed page DOES make a difference. 1/5 until http 1.1 and compression support is added, along with all of the other "5.0" features promised more than 5 years ago. If anyone wants to use google instant, domain blocking, +1, or other google features, and happens to be using ipv6. Try http://ipv6.google.com Google IPV6 is not touched by ad muncher, so all of these features work beautifully.

Rated 50/50 by ovd at May 27, 2011

Ad Muncher does a great job in blocking ads no doubt about it, it's the best ad blocker that you can get. This is a great piece of software, even the beta builds are very stable, I never had a crash and I use Ad Muncher for about 4 years now. I am fully switching to Mac so will be nice to see a build for Mac OS too, and this soon :) but the development it's slow if we look at the gzip support. Users are asking for gzip support for over 6 years. ----- by Murray » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:19 pm Specifically I'm working on the HTTP 1.1/Gzip support for v4.7, which is coming along nicely. ----- ...now we have AM v4.92 and still don't have gzip support that has been promised for v4.7 AM breaks "google instant" due to lack of gzip support, I did not even know this because if you disable AM "google instant" is still not working, you have to close/exit Ad Muncher to see that "google instant" is working. Hope to see gzip and Mac support soon :) However this software gets 5 STARS from me!