Ad Muncher 4.81 Build 31376 Final

Rated 10/50 by emanresU deriseD at Sep 7, 2009

Still no gzip support. Wow. What year is it? Wow. There are many things I love about Ad Muncher, but let's get serious.

Rated 10/50 by Sven123456789 at Sep 7, 2009

Who would use this? You can get a free version of adblock software for Firefox and Seamonkey. As far as ads for im's, just use a program like Trillian. I always laugh at people who buy something thats available for free already elsewhere.

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Sep 7, 2009

Geat program, a must-have for me on any PC I use. Higher beta is available at the usual location: http://www.admuncher.com/beta.pl

Rated 10/50 by ssb at Sep 8, 2009

Still no HTTP1.1? I hope they'll implement this until next ...century.

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Sep 8, 2009

People, cut the crap with x64 support already. This is a ad blocking application. This is no video editing, no photo editing or any other CPU-intensive program. So would you please stop whining about x64 support - MOST program do not need that!

Rated 50/50 by kevinmook at Sep 11, 2009

Ad Muncher is still the best ad blocker out there, hands down. I rarely run into ads these days, and when I do, I report them, and they're gone generally within 24 hours. Video Ads on almost every site are completely blocked. Yes, development can be slow, but that's how it goes when there's only one person writing the code. And frankly, I think this issue is moot when the list maintainer is putting out 2 updates every day and is available almost upon demand whenever you need to report a problem. Why are people clamoring for filtering support of x64 applications? OK, great, my 64-bit browser is filtered - Too bad Flash, Java, or any other of my plugins still aren't working. IMHO, the only major feature AM is lacking is HTTP 1.1/gzip support - everything after that, to me at least, is ancillary, and certainly does not deserve a 1-star rating for lacking it. This latest release offers some huge improvements when it comes to filtering performance. The popup filtering code and javascript code were entirely rewritten, and false positives and page damage (Especially on AJAX-heavy sites like Facebook) are basically nil now.

Rated 50/50 by FreeSpeech at Sep 24, 2009

Best ad blocker on planet Earth! This is quality software that is worth paying for. Ad Muncher Usage Statistics for v4.73 Beta Build 31256/2576 Adverts removed by Ad Muncher: 1,342,096 Approximate bandwidth saved: 10,485 MB Counter started: August 7, 2003

Rated 10/50 by Young Strider at Sep 26, 2009

I use 4 browser and I use Proxomitron, so I definatelly DON'T need this crap payware.

Rated 50/50 by QQFarmer at Sep 26, 2009

I normally use three web browsers: IE8+FF+Chrome. So I need Ad Muncher. It does a beautiful job blocking ads on IE and Chrome. Fantastic customer support. I can't live without this little cute software. Definitely worth the money.

Rated 20/50 by ballyhairs at Sep 26, 2009

If you are user of the mighty Firefox then you don't need this

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Oct 6, 2009

Mighty Firefox? Firefox's native popup blocker sucks. Ad Muncher is FAR superior, not just in blocking unwanted popups (and popunders), but in allowing wanted popups. Slow development because there's just one coder? Give me a break. I know of another lone developer who maintains several popular software titles, and he adds significant new features in most of them every couple years, and does point and subversion increases weekly. And actually, Ad Muncher has more than one full-time developer. Check the site if you don't believe this. Ad Muncher has been around for almost a DECADE and still we don't have HTTP 1.1 support? That's not "slow developement", it's a stubborn refusal to add a much-requested feature. At this point, all I can think is that it's a middle finger. BTW don't tell me I haven't used Ad Muncher enough to know; my stats are more than double those shown by FreeSpeech below, and that's despite not having used it much over the past couple years.

Rated 10/50 by FixXxeR at Oct 18, 2009

Looks like they might be about to start charging for list updates or add another "tier" of updates (AKA Premium List Updates). http://img25.imageshack....mg25/3551/amlicense.jpg The latest beta, 4.73.31306, gives a prompt after requiring re-validation of my license after the upgrade, stating that you are entitled to "Unlimited premium list updates". This same dialog also appears to give the impression that a new support system will come into play where only certain users are going to get support. Guess they need some more money out of the people who have supported them thus far after having removed lifetime upgrades as an option for new customers. Perhaps this added income will speed up this snails pace development cycle. 4.72 has been out for over a year, who knows how long 4.73 will take to finish. 4.73 was supposed to be the x64 release allowing you to tie into a 64 bit browser or application. This has, again, been pushed back to another release which is in itself at least a year away from the release date of 4.73 which who knows when that will finally hit release status. I guess they learned their lesson after missing the boat with Vista and waiting until almost a year after its release to fix it. At least Windows 7 users won't have to suffer since the author learned from his first mistake. 1/5 for a slow development cycle which appears to have reached the point where they are about to ask for more money from their users. Let us not forget the laundry list of promised features dating back at least 4 years ago: Regex Support HTTP 1.1 Support GZIP support USB Portability x64 Support Per-Site filtering Filter comments Filter statistics Enable/Disable individual filters But hey, we have new popup filtering code! http://www.admuncher.com...topic.php?f=5&t=282 A sample of a request for gzip support dating back over 4 years ago. The user was promptly attacked by the other forum members because he is a developer and would like to be able

Rated 10/50 by Ramp4me at Oct 19, 2009

The free Proxomitron blows this stupid crap thing to dust.

Rated 30/50 by 4122 at Oct 19, 2009

For those panicking about the "Premium List Updates" dialog. Here is an excerpt from the changelog: Added support for premium/basic list updates (for a future reduced-price license). They are evidently going to offer a basic product with reduced features for a reduced price sometime in the future which, of course, isn't going to affect current registered users. Rating this a 3 because all the other criticisms (RegEx, Gzip, etc.) still are valid concerns.

Rated 50/50 by Zoroaster at Oct 19, 2009

Some people here seem rather hysterical. With calm, Ad Muncher is recognized as a leader in its category, and the registration I have paid 3 years ago has never been submitted since. Also, I'd like to point out that the extravagant speech of some techies seem to fit somewhere between arrogance and childishness. Ad Muncher will suit the advanced user as well as the newbie, it removes here everything one can see, as well as stat and other nasty calls of the sort. The Ad Muncher team and it's founder are helpful, efficient and not at all big-shots. Hope that's clear enough :)

Rated 50/50 by dwby at Oct 20, 2009

It still blocks more ads and other annoying web nasties than any other product - free or otherwise. Just try it for yourself, I'm willing to put money on it!

Rated 30/50 by betasun at Oct 20, 2009

Not much useful anymore .

Rated 50/50 by Lsavagejt at Oct 20, 2009

With the exception of its IP Scramble component, which I suppose is some kind of onion router, and slows my browser down to a crawl like all onion routers do, and which I therefore never use, this is an excellent program. It does everything I was hoping it would- block ads- all ads, right out of the box- no fussing about, not tinkering--done. On the other hand, if you want to mess around with it a bit, it is totally granular--totally! Totally awesome too, really and totally!

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Oct 21, 2009

I find it hard to swallow that HTTP 1.1/Gzip support wouldn't "make Ad Muncher better". It would definitely make it better, especially for users who frequent sites that use those things... It really helps. As a pure ad blocker, slamming AdBlock Plus is nonsense. ABP does a very good job blocking ads. But that's essentially all it does. Ad Muncher's popup/popunder blocking is the real advantage it has over ABP.

Rated 50/50 by pjb at Oct 21, 2009

Ad Muncher still rocks. Have been using it for many years. Would not like to have my computer without it.