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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

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Post by xenogears1969 »

Thanks Murray. Glad this went freeware, I will recommend it to friends who have been complaining about ads in non-browser apps since Ad Muncher blocks them system-wide and isn't limited to browsers.

Looking forward to trying v5 when it comes out in the future since it'll have SSL blocking.

Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free

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Post by xenogears1969 »

userbinator wrote: post #5
y4mi wrote: post #2

never 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…

Proxomitron wow I haven't heard that name in awhile. Yeah I used to use that and even had a huge set of custom rules in it back in the day when it was literally the only way to filter crap from webpages, I don't even think there were ad blocking browser addons back then.

Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free

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Post by JetSpiegel »

vegitto wrote: post #4
y4mi wrote: post #2

never 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…

How does it compare to HTTPSwitchboard for WebKit-based?

Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free

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Post by niklasber »

andreasklinger wrote: post #14

Would this be an optimal scenario to open source it? You could still bundle the install for the "official binary" with other things.

Also thinking about this. Wouldn't it be a good idea to open source it and cut down on your staffs' working hours. Seems like you got a fairly big user base so there should be developers out there willing to contribute. Perhaps you could cut down on your costs and merge pull request from open source contributors.

Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free

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Post by abcd_f »

Zero technical info on the site, weird. But since it also filters out ads in non-browser apps, it should be some sort of proxy. Then how does it handle https'd ads? Self-signed certs and all? Perhaps dwindling supply of http resources and increasing privacy concerns are the reasons why it's "now completely free" :-/

PS. I've been Windows user since 3.11, I am very pro-privacy and I've never even heard of Ad Muncher. Make you what you want from it.

Re: After 15 years as shareware, Ad Muncher is now completely free

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Post by huhtenberg »

vegitto wrote: post #4
y4mi wrote: post #2

never 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…

Please stop with astroturfing.
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