Are there any banner ad blockers?

…Share/freeware banner ad blockers, specifically. I saw this mentioned at ZoneAlarm’s website, but it was for a version I have to pay for. This sure sounded like a good idea to me. Please don’t tell me I’m ruining the internet’s free content.

The one I use is called Ad-Erase. I’ve had no trouble with it.

While I would be the last to chastise you, I would humbly suggest that it might be somewhat uncouth to ask this question on such a site as this, which is itself giving away free content funded in part by banner ads.

Hehe. Yeah. :slight_smile: :dubious:

Banner ads? Where?

Heh.

There’s a banner on the straight dope homepage.

Mozilla has a feature to block loading of images from any particular server. Just right-click on an image and choose “Block images from this server.” Pages you visit frequently tend to have the same servers distributing the banner ads. It also can block pop-up windows.

In addition to this, the new Mozilla Firebird browser has a very nice “Flash click to play.” All those annoying Flash ads just appear as a gray rectangle, which you can click if you really do want to see the Flash animation.