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Pop-Up Blockers (2 products)


[edit] Brief Description

Pop-Up Blockers (or Pop-Up killers) are used to prevent pop-ups from displaying in a user's Web browser.

Synonyms: Pop-Up killers

Tags: pop-up killer, pop-ups blocker

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Contents
  1. Description
  2. How they work
  3. What to look for
  4. Community
  5. See Also

Description

Pop-up blockers are tools designed to block pop-up window when a web site is displayed. Usually pop-up windows have advertising content. The pop-up blockers provide a cleaner looking webpage as well as a lower resource usage.

How they work

All the pop-up blockers are working in real time, before ever being seen and before they have the chance to infect the computer with spyware or adware, this way the user is always protected. Also the usage of a pop-up blocker means gaining browsing speed. Most of the pop-up blockers are more than one way to protect us from the annoying pop-up ads, like using a pop-up block list, a pop-up block list with keywords and limiting the windows opened.

What to look for

  • Choosing the proper Internet browser

There are many Internet browsers that have integrated pop-up blockers and content filtering. The most popular one are Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror.

  • Standalone programs

The top standalone product in this category is Pop-up Blocker Pro which offers all the named possibilities for pop-up blocking.

  • Proxy configuration

Also another solution is customizing the web/HTTP proxy to filter content. The main advantage of this method is that the proxy it is used by many users – however it has also a downfall in that it is a raw filtering these kind of software not handling very well the Java script generated content.

Community

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