| I don't know about you, but I find banner ads pretty darn obnoxious.
Now, I do understand that the foundation upon which the internet is built
is, pure and simple: advertising. That's what makes the internet work,
and that's why it was growing so fast. It's interesting to see companies
fold as advertising falls short of expectations.
I hate those ugly banner ads (especially that "punch the monkey" thing).
They steal my bandwidth and they take room from content. Think about it,
you have a 10k banner, you lose a couple of seconds of bandwidth and about
an inch off the top of your screen.
Even worse are those idiotic pop-up banner ads which free web sites
seem to love (at least now most of them offer the option of using inline
ads). There is very little worse than visiting a web site and having that
stupid panty hose ad pop up over and over and over. It just won't stay
closed.
Visit our site of Freeware
Software and find lot of block - remove adverts free programs.
Another product which does just about the same thing is Norton Internet
Security 2001. In addition to performing all of the ad blocking and cookie
management, Norton Internet Security 2000 contains a firewall.
The ad blocking and cookie manager of this product is reasonably good,
but the firewall has some flaws.
Regardless of the product, you now have the power to remove those annoying
ads from your surfing experience.
As an added benefit, this has tremendous effects on safeguarding your
privacy. These products both remove web bugs,
which are nasty little things created to track your movements across the
internet. Now you can stop telling companies like DoubleClick from following
your surfing habits. By blocking the ad, you are also blocking the report
back to them of what you are viewing.
How do these programs work? It's very simple really. These intercept
web pages before they get to your browser and examine the HTML code. If
they find something that matches one of their patterns for an advertisement,
they simply remove the code.
This means you pay a small price in CPU performance (I personally didn't
notice any delay), but gain it back in bandwidth performance as you do
not have to load the banners. |