Ad Muncher 4.81 Build 31376 Final

Rated 50/50 by shroom at Apr 18, 2008

You should name those big-name sites that don't work, 'cause I really doubt they don't work considering I've never had any single problem with "big-name" sites, neither ssl transactions. This tool is just an amazing piece of software that makes your Internet surfing much more pleasant. Also 25$ for an everyday updated tool is not expensive (and I bought it when it was a lifetime license price).

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Apr 18, 2008

Price really IS an issue. Support doesn't look too good to me as well. Still, does the trick. I've NEVER had problems with it.

Rated 10/50 by slimy at Apr 18, 2008

Simply not worth the cash anymore :/

Rated 10/50 by Metshrine at Apr 18, 2008

Poor support (Jeff is very rude when you have an issue that he doesnt feel is important or one which he doesn't agree with. I believe comeoffit used the proper term which is condescending) coupled with a release schedule which seems to have no defined pattern or time schedule. I remember when I first ran into ad muncher and many of these things were talked about and promised to the users, and still are promised. That was some 4 years ago. 4 years in and we still dont have Regex, per site filters, http 1.1, gzip support, usb drive support (although it can and is easily accomplished), Per filter statistics, the list goes on and on. Hell, its taken them almost a year and a half to finally impliment vista support after vista's release and this 4.72 release still isnt done yet. x64 hasn't been implimented either so I have to use the 32 bit version of applications on my x64 OS if I want to use ad muncher. I am sorry, but 4 years for some features which others have implimented in far less time is unacceptable. There also seems to be a trend of forcing users to use beta builds because they break the way updates are handled. My father was wondering why his version hadn't updated in almost a month. It wasnt until I was forced to check their forums that I saw that they had once again broken the update mechanism for a version which is less than 4 months old. By the way, if you want a major site that is broken with ad muncher, check out the blackboard site for most online schools and try and post a new thread on the discussion boards or send an email to your instructor. You cannot with ad muncher enabled. I learned this the hard way just recently. Thanks ad muncher!

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Apr 18, 2008

To the poster below, what major sites are having problems? I believe you are a troll since I have had no problems what so ever. If you would kindly post a link to the pages with the problems or send them to the authors, they will get fixed. Otherwise, stop your trolling :). Thanks for the great release fellas!

Rated 50/50 by Brian49 at Apr 19, 2008

Indispensable for hassle-free browsing. I've just been retrying all the rival programs, as I do from time to time, and none of them comes near Ad Muncher for effectiveness of filtering, range of options and size of footprint. Moreover, the option to change the referrer field is an excellent bonus which apparently hasn't even occurred to the developers of the other programs.

Rated 50/50 by WildTbag at Apr 19, 2008

Any prog can be filtered, i.e. Website Copier like WinHTTrack. Just add it to the list of filter targets. The Ad Muncher engine is very powerfull, you can add almost anything to the 'My filters'. Highly recommended program.

Rated 50/50 by kevinmook at Apr 19, 2008

Another solid beta from Murray, and it's getting close to a final release. To those complaining about long dev cycles, well, there's not much that can be done about that when the dev team is a single guy. These changes that everyone wants aren't going to happen overnight. They require massive code rewrites and implementing features from scratch. The list maintainer is not condescending at all. He can be curt, and is very straight-forward about his answers. He is this way because time is limited. But every single website I've ever reported with broken content has been fixed immediately and has been included in the next list update. If you need the fix immediately, he will give it to you to add to your custom filter list. Every time, without exception, this is how my experiences have been handled. I've also found several bugs during beta testing processes and they were also fixed for the next beta release. The customer service ALONE is worth the price of a license. Always a 5-star product. Please rate it on the features it has NOW, not the features you WISH it had.

Rated 50/50 by Caleb at Apr 19, 2008

Ad Muncher is the best ad and popup blocker/remover around. I guarantee that you will not find anything as good as AM for the same price or even for a higher price, it's just the best. It filters ads from all the popular browsers and even allows you to manually add filter targets (names of executables) that you want to filter. It updates once a day to make sure that you never bump into an ad, and I never have. It's also fast and barely takes any resources. About Metshrine's review: This app doesn't deserve a 1/5, that's ludicrous, I'm not sure what he's pissed at but even though that AM does not yet support HTTP/1.1 and GZIP or per-site filtering it does its job superbly and all these features are in the pipeline for the next version. If you're going to spend cash on an ad removal software, make sure that it's this one and you won't be disappointed.

Rated 30/50 by preinterpost at Apr 21, 2008

Good but too expensive for its functionality and compared to features of free alternatives.

Rated 50/50 by digitalking at Apr 21, 2008

Perfect program that should be on everyone's PC who uses the Internet.

Rated 50/50 by [deXter] at Apr 22, 2008

preinterpost: Tell me if you can find *any* other program less than $25 or cheaper or even free, that offers all these features/advantages in one roof: - Less than half an MB in size - Works seamlessly across all browsers AND applications without any manual setting-up - Doesn't require any manual filter configurations - Regular updates for both the program and filters - Integrated LIVE chat support and e-mail support - Works in all versions of Windows - Doesn't leave a blank space when an Ad is removed - Blocks video Ads very effectively (eg: @ CNN, CNET, etc) - Allows to add your add your own JS/CSS to webpages and also modify their content - Features a built-in anonymizer with a regularly updated proxy list and a builtin proxy checker - Customizing site behaviour, eg, (dis)allowing a webpage from changing your status bar, mouse trails effects, etc - Can change referer and user agents - Oh, and did I mention it blocks popups too? If you ask me, the program is priced way lower than what it's worth.

Rated 50/50 by The Seeker 11 at Apr 22, 2008

Out of interest, why do these betas always end up here? It clearly states on the download page, "Please do not post this beta to beta sites, shareware sites or software news sites. We will make the posts ourselves once all known critical problems are dealt with." Also, the URL spells it out quite clearly - http://www.admuncher.com...eta.pl/30342/1284962659 Anyway, it is a top program that I've happily been using for two years now.

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Apr 22, 2008

Strange it's not on auto-update yet. Works flawlessly, but there are more and more sites where it does NOT for some reason cut the ads out...

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Apr 23, 2008

Whatever the dude belows says, BUT price really IS an issue.

Rated 50/50 by shroom at Apr 24, 2008

If that was that easy to block ads and popups on every single website, there wouldn't be any updates needed. For that price you have an updated advert list every day and an excellent support. That's enough I think to charge 25$, while most of the sharewares are between 20 and 30$, and not all of them can display the support this team does.

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Apr 24, 2008

Diam0nd, just report them. I rarely (very, very rarely) see a site which is broken because of Ad Muncher. And when I do I report it to the devs via email. A simple right click and I get a fix via the default list the next update or they give me a custom filter. Easy as pie :) Very close to the final guys!

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Apr 24, 2008

Caleb: "No ad blocker is perfect, it's an ongoing job. If you see an ad that was not blocked then just report it, won't take more than 10 seconds." No can do my man, simply too much sites that I need to add manually. This is NOT what I paid for.

Rated 50/50 by Caleb at Apr 24, 2008

Diam0nd said: "Works flawlessly, but there are more and more sites where it does NOT for some reason cut the ads out..." No ad blocker is perfect, it's an ongoing job. If you see an ad that was not blocked then just report it, won't take more than 10 seconds.

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Apr 24, 2008

Not exactly Diam0nd. Let me put it into perspective. You can put away $5 each week for 6 weeks and you will have enough (using the price structure it is in, Australian dollars) to buy one license which will last you for a long time (version 5 won't be coming for many more years). And what's that? One lunch a week for 6 weeks? It really doesn't sound like much when you put it like that. You're buying the dev (he can't share with the other dev 0;)) 1 lunch a week for a month and two weeks, while you get everything [deXter] said and more for a much longer time than that. Is the price worth it? I think so :).