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Ad Blocking via CSS - How to use CSS rules to block ads. The technique works for any Gecko-based browser and for Apple's browser, Safari.  It even works with the Thunderbird mail client.

Ad Extinguisher - Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Small proxy that blocks banner ads and some web bugs, also freezes animated gifs.
Meta Description: [ Introduction and News Section about Adextinguisher, a free program that blocks banner ads on web pages. ]

Ad Filtering programs - Comprehensive list of advert filtering applications.

Ad Muncher - Shareware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. Small, patch for common web browsers. Removes banners, buttons, popups.
Meta Description: [ Sick of annoying pop up windows and adverts? Get rid of them with the best banner and pop up stopper available! Kills advertisements on all sites including Google, Hotmail and Yahoo. ]

AdsCleaner - Ad stopper and pop up blocker with additional features. Commercial. Windows NT/2000/XP.
Meta Description: [ AdsCleaner is a powerful ad stopper and pop up blocker designed to kill the Internet ads. Unlike many ad killers AdsCleaner not only allows you to block ads, but gives you much more. Popup blocker allows loading multiple Web pages and managing Internet Explorer windows. Save your online privacy a... ]

AdSubtract - Freeware and commercial versions for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Runs in browsers java virtual machine and kills ads and cookies, slowish.

Adzapper - Freeware for RedHat Linux 6.2/Unix/Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source rule-based filtering proxy written in Python to transform banner ads into transparent GIFs.

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File - Free for all platforms. A hosts file that blocks most major advertisers, parasites, hijackers and unwanted search engines.
Meta Description: [ This article provides details on blocking Ads, Banners, Parasites, and Hijackers, web bugs, etc. with a custom HOSTS file ]

Cut the Crap (CTC) - Freeware for Unix/Linux. Proxy-like open-source daemon written in Python to filter out ads for dialup users.

Gorilla Design Studio Presents: The Hosts File - Free for all platforms. A hosts file for blocking the hostnames of major advertisers.

gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking - How to use Mozilla and Firefox to create custom CSS rules to hide certain elements based on their attributes and values.

Guidescope - Free for non-commercial use, for Linux/Sparc/Solaris/Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000. Proxy that filters ads by pattern matching and blacklist. Also filters cookies and referers.

hpHOSTS - Freely downloadable community managed hosts file for ad and malware site blocking.
Meta Description: [ hpHosts Online - Simple, Searchable & Authorized! ]

Internet Watcher - Commercial software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. Ad remover, automatically configures browser, and comes in five European languages.
Meta Description: [ Take control of the Internet! Ad-Filter, Pop-Up Killer, Protection, Proxy.... ]

JunkBuster - Freeware for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/OS2/BeOS/Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Web proxy that filters banner ads, cookies, and referer tracking. Supports wafers and User-Agent spoofing.
Meta Description: [ The Internet Junkbuster (TM) is free software that blocks banner ads, cookies, refering URLs and other unwanted browser junk. ]

KillAd - Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Kills web browser pop-up ad windows.

Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File - Free for all platforms. A hosts file that block major advertisers' hostnames.
Meta Description: [ anti-spyware, privacy, security, anti-virus ]

nobanner - Freeware for Unix/Linux. Web proxy written in Perl which rewrites HTML on the fly to remove ads.
Meta Description: [ Dave Regan's Cornvalley CGI scripts and Sundries is a collection of cgi programs and custom programming that looks generally useful. It is mostly written in perl ]

PithHelmet - An extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to allow the user to control the blocking of ad images, Flash, Shockwave or midi loops.

Rabbit - Freeware for any OS with JAVA. Proxy designed to speed surfing over slow links, by removing adverts and compressing the data stream using gzip and jpegs. Innovative approach.

Squid - Freeware for Unix. Caching proxy which can block ads. You can also use squidGuard and SleezeBall to help do this.

404 V6 Web Engine - Freeware for Unix. General purpose Web filtering and processing proxy. Source and binary distributions available.

Web Ad Blocking Under Linux/Unix, BeOS, MacOS and Windows - Step-by-step instructions on how to block advertisements.

WebFilter - Freeware for Unix. Web advertising filter based on Cern's httpd web server.

WebMask - Freeware program for Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source program to remove Web ads. No longer under development by author.

WebWasher Classic - Donationware for Windows. Ad filtering proxy which Includes Cookie, Popup, Animated Image, Referrer and Webbugs filter. Has automatic browser configuration for Netscape 3-6, Internet Explorer 3-5 and Opera 3-5.

ZeroClick - Freeware for Unix/Linux/Macintosh/Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Web proxy that closes popup windows and turns banner ads into transparent GIFs. Configurable with regular expressions, pure Java and covered under GPL.