After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
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Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#2never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome.
and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#3never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome. and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
I'd never heard of µBlock myself, definitely going to check them out; been frustrated constantly with performance loss from Adblock/ABP
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#4never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome. and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
IMO it's far better than AdBlock. It's a Windows only program and it differs to AdBlock by listening for HTTP packets coming directly off the ethernet adapter (I don't know the full inner-workings of course, but I'm taking an educated guess here). This has a significant benefit over AdBlock / similar browser based solutions for several reasons:
1. It works across any browser (on Windows) 2. It's far more reliable for blocking crazy JS hacks
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#5never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome. and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
From the "blocks ads in all browsers" tagline this appears to be a filtering proxy server, so it essentially MITMs your connection to filter stuff out and/or modify it before it gets to the browser.
I've been using Proxomitron, which is a similar (discontinued) freeware product, for the same purpose. The only real pain is HTTPS - which AdMuncher doesn't appear to support - but Proxomitron can filter HTTPS too (you need to install a local certificate), albeit it was written at a time when single-core was the norm and so needs to be constrained to run on one core due to some race condition that I'm not too bothered with figuring out and attempting to fix at the moment...
Proximodo is another open-source alternative which aims to be compatible with it but also lacks the increasingly-needed HTTPS MITM feature. (Should we call this "benevolent MITM" since it is completely under the consent and desire of the user, as opposed to the usual "malicious MITM"?)
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#6never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome. and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
From the "blocks ads in all browsers" tagline this appears to be a filtering proxy server, so it essentially MITMs your connection to filter stuff out and/or modify it before it gets to the browser. I've been using Proxomitron, which is a similar (discontinued) freeware product, for the same purpose. The only real pain is HTTPS - which AdMuncher doesn't appear to support - but Proxomitron can filter HTTPS too (you ne…
If I may, I'd like to take a moment to honour the memory of Scott R. Lemmon.
He was a hell of a coder, and person, and ten years after his passing his work is still hugely appreciated.
Cheers wherever you are Scott.
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#7I don't get blocking some ads. What does it hurt to have a basic banner add next to the story you are reading? They took the time, effort, and money to create content you want to read why block it?
I understand blocking ads that take over your page but not basic ads.
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#8I don't mind free stuff, but to be honest I don't see why you release it for free. Seems like you had something sustainable going on. One person selling everything he owns to pay 3 persons' salaries don't seem sustainable.
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#9I don't get blocking some ads. What does it hurt to have a basic banner add next to the story you are reading? They took the time, effort, and money to create content you want to read why block it? I understand blocking ads that take over your page but not basic ads.
Where is this banner coming from? Whose servers are you contacting to get it? Whose javascript is it running? Is it loading flash or java rather than an image? How many people end up tracking you for requesting "one banner"?
As far as I am concerned the advertising industry has screwed themselves over by allowing security threats to be delivered via their networks.
Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free
#10never heard of it. might've been different 15 years ago, but its probably the only choice nowadays with AdblockEdge on Firefox and µBlock on Chrome. and on that note: how does this differ from them? different block lists? alternative blocking mechanism?
From the "blocks ads in all browsers" tagline this appears to be a filtering proxy server, so it essentially MITMs your connection to filter stuff out and/or modify it before it gets to the browser. I've been using Proxomitron, which is a similar (discontinued) freeware product, for the same purpose. The only real pain is HTTPS - which AdMuncher doesn't appear to support - but Proxomitron can filter HTTPS too (you ne…
I built a filtering proxy module on node. It filters by domain (only) and works with HTTPS. It still chokes once in a while on malformed responses but can still provide efficient filtering with good performance.