Ad Muncher 4.81 Build 31376 Final

Rated 50/50 by shroom at Jan 19, 2008

One of the most useful, if not the most useful, Internet tool available.

Rated 10/50 by Sacrifce at Jan 20, 2008

1 year between major feature additions. HAH! Give me ad block any day.

Rated 50/50 by 4122 at Jan 20, 2008

My rating returns to a 5 now that it works half-way decently with Vista. 64-bit compatibility was pushed back so basic Vista-compatibility could be pushed out the door. Gzip was pushed back to tackle the way Ad Muncher works with Vista so I won't dock any points for those two things. There's only so much one guy can do. There's technically two guys on this team, but the way I understand it one of the guys strictly works on the signature updates. The lack of regex is disappointing, but it is supposed to come with the re-write from assembly into C++ and the author just hasn't reached that part of code yet. He's wisely decided to tackle the re-write in stages rather than delay releasing anything until the entire program has been converted to the new programming language. 64-bit compatibility, gzip, regex - hopefully there won't be a year between releases when each of these show up in the feature list.

Rated 50/50 by war593122 at Jan 20, 2008

Well there you go x64 coming soon. And yes I really want gzip as well but I don't judge a product based on one feature. Just glad most of you people are not judges.

Rated 50/50 by Scoobs72 at Feb 15, 2008

Been running this latest beta for a few days now. Working beautifully as usual. Fantastic application

Rated 50/50 by rcadams at Feb 15, 2008

I wish Admuncher could block your useless reviews Sacrifce. Now on to the real program. Works as described, Works great with Final release of Vista w/ SP1 RTM. Great Job guys.

Rated 50/50 by RawGutts at Feb 16, 2008

Great product, been using it for years now..

Rated 40/50 by Diam0nd at Feb 16, 2008

Good, but madly overpriced for it's purpose. I mean I could get an FTP client, or server or many other products for that same price. Better use smth free.

Rated 50/50 by boooggy at Feb 16, 2008

a great program. one thing ....version 4.72.30046 beta is out.

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Feb 16, 2008

Another great release from these guys. This program beats every other one out there. I am willing to place $100 bet that AM removes more ads better and cleaner than any other blocker out there!

Rated 10/50 by Point Zero at Feb 19, 2008

Proxomitron and Ad Block Plus can do all this and much much more, for free.

Rated 40/50 by Diam0nd at Feb 21, 2008

The only drawback is the price. In terms of other solutions, there arent much of those around. I'm talking standalone applications, NOT plugins for browsers, since people saying that AdBlock is better are friggin hilarious since WHAT IF I DON'T USE FF?

Rated 30/50 by preinterpost at Feb 21, 2008

It works well but too expensive given that there are free solutions. The blocker built into Maxthon is especially giving it a run for its money.

Rated 50/50 by shroom at Feb 21, 2008

Another "nice" review from Point Less... Thanks ! Not everyone is a FF-fanboy, so keep your FF plugin for yourself. Rating 1 because it isn't free is plain stupid as it works much better than Proxo for the content filtering part. Support is perfect and a lot of users have a lifetime license.

Rated 50/50 by dhry at Feb 22, 2008

Absolute best program of it's type. For what it does, it's incredibly small too. An example of how to write a REAL program, and a real useful one at that.

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Feb 22, 2008

Getting closer to a final release me thinks! Just a couple of replies: @b0mmel Ad Muncher does not run as a proxy. It just simply hooks in. No fuss, no mess. @preinterpost Can the ad block in Maxthon filter MSN or Firefox or Opera or any other program for that matter? Does the filter list get updated *each* day? Last I checked you had to add the filters to Maxthon yourself. @Point Zero Neither program have lists which are updated each day. Neither programs have lists which are scrutinised by one talented person. Promomitron hasn't been updated in years and runs as a proxy (eww) and Ad Block Plus, which one are we talking about? The Firefox plugin which can only filter Firefox or the program which is about as useful as shoes for a legless man? I'm just a very happy user who cannot get enough of this program. Thank you so much for keeping it updated folks!

Rated 50/50 by b0mmel at Feb 22, 2008

This is THE best adfilter on the market. If you're an IE user, this is a must have program. Together with "Inline Search" from ieforge.com, it makes IE7 a superlightweight, efficient, little browser. It also offers some other options like anonymous browsing and removing of this annoying colored scrollbars some sites have. Ad Muncher runs as a local proxy and is therefore much lighter on the browser than the sluggish IE7Pro (which I don't trust btw).

Rated 50/50 by digitalking at Mar 10, 2008

The fastest and most complete ad blocker on the Net. Adblock Plus may make it easier to add a site or a component of a site, but in my testing, is slower. Ad Muncher blocks ads and bad sites, for every application that uses an Internet connection. The only other solution I found to do this, was using a HOSTS file.

Rated 10/50 by Metshrine at Mar 10, 2008

Breaks mapquest.com's direction search facility and the "Saved and recent" function. Unacceptable given the amount of time I spend on this site. To the developer, this doesn't require you reply on this forum or to me on irc. So please refrain. (Glad to see you guys can read). The fastest response method has been removed for me since Jeff has banned me for doing nothing more than doing a daily check of the channel for news in the topic of the channel for new betas (WHICH HE HIMSELF ADVISES PEOPLE TO DO ON YOUR VERY FORUMS).

Rated 50/50 by Murray Hurps at Mar 11, 2008

Thanks very much for the report Metshrine. Mapquest was fixed in less than an hour from when it was reported to us. In future please make sure you report issues using Ad Muncher's built in reporting system (as well as posting here if you really feel the need) for the fastest possible response.