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So quoth Somthor:
nice thing about IE-spyad is that it blocks alot of known sites for spam so if you get hi-jacked the page simply doesnt open.
Whereas the Google toolbar would let you visit them still, and with my experience 90% of them at least would be pop-up free.
I'm actually using Avant Browser right now though. Yet to see a pop-up after about 3 weeks of use.
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Neo-Blindy had this to say about John Romero:
google toolbar works freaking great for me.
So far its been nothing but awesome for me, I was just wondering if there was something better. 
The single most effective one I found was a browser-only blocker called GuardWall (also Guard-IE). However, it takes a second to process a popup window that it suspects of being an ad, so using this will cause some minor browsing delays. It caught every type of popup ad, and didn't block anything I actually wanted.
Other good programs included Panicware Popup Stopper (free edition), Popup Dummy, and a free version of Sureshot Popup Blocker called Stop-The-Pop-Ups Lite (they worked the same, but the free one was... free). None of these blocked all ads, but they all did significantly better than Google. Sureshot was a pain though, because it blocked new windows too. Popup Dummy and Sureshot also blocked spyware popups. (Panicware's professional edition was supposed to block spyware as well, but that was less effective than the free edition at stopping normal browser popups.)
The majority (not most, but the majority) of the popup blockers I tested blocked ads that popped up during page load, and were able to handle punishment (50+ popups at once). This included Google Toolbar. Since these types of pupups constitute 99% of the popup ads on the 'net, most people don't need anything more robust. [ 01-20-2004: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ]
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Alek Saege Model 2000 was programmed to say:
So far its been nothing but awesome for me, I was just wondering if there was something better.
Don't fix it if it isn't broken.
I haven't seen any ads at all in months.
Of course, I tend to use Google alot so its pop-up blocker is just and added sweetness to the search functions the toolbar offers to me.
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Neo-Blindy had this to say about Knight Rider:
google toolbar works freaking great for me.
concur, haven't seen a single popup since I started with it.
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Ford Prefect wrote this stupid crap:
TEST YOUR POPUP BLOCKER
The only 2 that opened up popup windows were the target = _blank ones... other than that there was no popups for me, and I'm not using Google Toolbar or any other 3rd party popup blocker.
Although I am using NIS to keep the banner adds out of my face. 
Firebird works like a charm for me. 
-Tok
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Verily, Toktuk doth proclaim:
*Cough*Firebird works like a charm for me.
-Tok
Maybe he should have specified "pop up blockers that don't fuck up the formatting of pages"
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Toktuk stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
*Cough*Firebird works like a charm for me.
-Tok
Bah.. go and spill the beans on what I'm using... wanker!
quote:Google Toolbar 2.0.95 only failed on the popup by clicking on textbox test.
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Ford Prefect was all like:
TEST YOUR POPUP BLOCKER
quote:It also failed the popup-on-close from the refresh test, and all the tests on page 2 (test3.htm). Though only popnot and guardwall stopped the stuff on page 2, so I don't give it a lot of weight. Only the ones I reccommended blocked every unwanted popup on page 1.
Espio Idsavant is attacking the darkness!
Google Toolbar 2.0.95 only failed on the popup by clicking on textbox test.
[ 01-21-2004: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ]
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Maradon! wrote this stupid crap:
Maybe he should have specified "pop up blockers that don't fuck up the formatting of pages"
Of one out of like every 5,000 pages AT BEST
oh gasp, my day has been ruined!
Anyway, are were going to get into another argument of personal preference?
