Put Your Favorite Pop-up Blocker To Test

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10-14-2003, 03:46 AM
I.am

I am not sure whether this has been posted before but lately people have been poitning all different kind of popup stoppers and arguing that theirs is the best. Well here is a chance to really find out whether its really what you think it is. Check it out through different mediums and post your results here.

Test Popup

Results:

Google Toolbar with Pop-up blocker on:

Common Techniques
All 0 except:
Come and go test: 1

Less Common Techniques
All 0 except
Drop down: 1
Floating: 1
Sticky: 1

High tech
All seen.

Good popups
All allowed

Looks like fairly good performance.
How about you?

Cheers!
I.am

edit: oops looks like someone already posted the link about this in a separate topic.
What the heck! Why dont we bring all different one's to test now.
10-14-2003, 04:35 AM
sparsely

This is the Pop-Up Tester I use.
10-14-2003, 04:42 AM
MUSLEMAN

i passed all with admuncher except for high tech they were all seen
10-14-2003, 05:15 AM
Monkeee

lol google toolbar is the best pop-upblocker who ever knew a toolbar could be useful all the toolbar i got is annoying and i have no idea how it even got installed :D
10-14-2003, 05:25 AM
ZaZu

I had to disable Pop-Up Stopper to use the links

on the site only Sticky,Floating Banner and Dropdown worked

I use ZoneAlarm w/WebFiltering as well
10-14-2003, 07:04 AM
sparsely
Let's get detailed statistics so we can really determine which bloker does the best job.

Google Toolbar

Site 1:
- Multi-PopUp Test: Passed (no pop-ups)
- Multi-PopUp Test#2: Passed
- Come & Go Test: 1 Pop-Up on entry
- Timed Pop-Up: Passed
- Mouseover: Passed
- Floating PopUp: Failed
- Channel Opener: Passed
- Modeless Window: Failed
- Full-Screen Trap: Passed
- Drop-Down: Failed
- Floating Banner: Failed
- Chromeless: Passed
- Sticky PopUp: Failed
- All High-Tech Ads: Failed
- All Good Pop-Ups: Passed (were allowed)
10-14-2003, 07:06 AM
asmithz

Dosent look good
http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/u/djsmile.gif
10-14-2003, 07:16 AM
nikita69

In IE only the text or plain windows opened (those were considered safe)

In Firebird NOTHING appeared

In Opera NOTHING appeared

Unique 78 "Ads" were blocked out of 81 :)

as for the Sparsely link, blocked ALL OF THEM. NOTHING SHOWED UP.
10-14-2003, 09:02 AM
MUSLEMAN

ad muncher:

Multi-PopUp Test: Passed (no pop-ups)
Multi-PopUp Test#2: Passed
Come & Go Test: pass
Timed Pop-Up: Passed
Mouseover: Passed
Floating PopUp: pass
Channel Opener: Passed
Modeless Window: pass
Full-Screen Trap: Passed
Drop-Down: pass
Floating Banner: pass
Chromeless: Passed
Sticky PopUp: pass

All High-Tech Ads: Failed
All Good Pop-Ups: Passed (were allowed)
10-15-2003, 12:37 AM
sparsely

excellent on admuncher...
freeware?
10-15-2003, 12:52 AM
ninjamonkey

what are high-tech ads?
10-15-2003, 01:20 AM
sparsely

like the ones here
10-15-2003, 02:45 AM
I.am

admuncher sounds good, musleman
10-15-2003, 02:55 AM
wormless

my opinion google toolbar is handy and the pop up is good but pop up stopper always get there 1st.aol's full of pop ups gld i dnt use that.
10-15-2003, 03:25 AM
MUSLEMAN

admuncher full

File:Ad.Muncher.v4.51.8415-diGERATi-Pleasuredome101.com.rar
Length:317779Bytes,310KB
UUHash:=oHYyhLKn9y1l93Frn1MzTbz8Itc=
10-15-2003, 05:18 AM
Jay

i use zone alarm, did pretty good on the test
10-15-2003, 05:47 AM
sparsely

Quote:

Originally posted by wormless+15 October 2003 - 01:55--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (wormless @ 15 October 2003 - 01:55)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> pop up stopper always get there 1st. [/b]

&

<!--QuoteBegin-Jay
i use zone alarm, did pretty good on the test[/quote]

Results please, we're trying for actual comparisons here.
10-15-2003, 05:53 AM
Alucard1475

Hey MUSLEMAN, I downloaded ad muncher but it didn't stop one popup.

What's wrong mate??

If it's the correct configuration, could you send me your configuration file.

Cheers :)
10-15-2003, 06:47 AM
skelley521

**Pop-Up Stopper Pro:

Multi-PopUp Test: Passed
Multi-PopUp Test#2: Passed
Come & Go Test: Passed
Timed Pop-Up: Failed
Mouseover: Passed
Floating PopUp: Failed
Channel Opener: Passed
Modeless Window: Failed
Full-Screen Trap: Passed
Drop-Down: Failed
Floating Banner: Passed
Chromeless: Passed
Sticky PopUp: Failed

All High-Tech Ads: 2 Passed; 1 Failed
All Good Pop-Ups: 2 were allowed and 2 failed (Had to use the Ctrl key to open the failed ones)

**System Mechanic Pro v4 (pop-up stopper enabeld (different machine))

Multi-PopUp Test: Passed
Multi-PopUp Test#2: Passed
Come & Go Test: Passed
Timed Pop-Up: Passed
Mouseover: Passed
Floating PopUp: Failed
Channel Opener: Passed
Modeless Window: Passed
Full-Screen Trap: Passed
Drop-Down: Failed
Floating Banner: Failed
Chromeless: Passed
Sticky PopUp: Failed

All High-Tech Ads: 2 Passed; 1 Failed
All Good Pop-Ups: Passed
10-15-2003, 07:56 AM
MUSLEMAN

Quote:

Originally posted by Alucard1475@15 October 2003 - 01:53
Hey MUSLEMAN, I downloaded ad muncher but it didn't stop one popup.

What's wrong mate??

If it's the correct configuration, could you send me your configuration file.

Cheers :)

what version do have?? and yes check your options man
10-15-2003, 12:10 PM
Alucard1475

Quote:

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN+15 October 2003 - 17:56--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MUSLEMAN @ 15 October 2003 - 17:56)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Alucard1475@15 October 2003 - 01:53
Hey MUSLEMAN, I downloaded ad muncher but it didn't stop one popup.

What's wrong mate??

If it's the correct configuration, could you send me your configuration file.

Cheers :)

what version do have?? and yes check your options man [/b][/quote]
I've got the one from the admuncher website Ad Muncher v4.51

I've checked all the optins but it doesn't work. :(
10-15-2003, 12:44 PM
MUSLEMAN

check your server supply list and your option list

why dont you use the hash i have in the other page for the full version if you know what i mean :lol:
10-15-2003, 12:54 PM
Alucard1475

Thanks mate, I've just figured it out.

Every version becomes a full version with the right tools here and there, if you know what I mean. ;)

Cheers again :)
10-15-2003, 01:51 PM
MUSLEMAN

Quote:

Originally posted by Alucard1475@15 October 2003 - 08:54
Thanks mate, I've just figured it out.

Every version becomes a full version with the right tools here and there, if you know what I mean. ;)

Cheers again :)

yup i got you boss if you know what i mean lol :lol: :lol:
11-07-2003, 05:14 AM
fkdup74

cool, got ad muncher, passed all but two high techs, and the mouse over (but it has option for disabling mouse overs and i have it selected, wtf?) maybe need to reboot or somethin to apply changes in options? hmm....

anyway, freesurfer, magikilla etc. all sucked a$$ thanks for the tip MM :)
11-07-2003, 05:52 AM
Shayne

Admuncher rulez. it blocked all the popups it was supposed to B)

I just love this tiny app
11-07-2003, 06:05 AM
nikita69

sidetrack for a sec please. i'm looking for a boomark manager, perferabley that works with mozilla firebird, that would create thumbs for my bookmarks and be able to refresh the thums everytime i open the program as i choose. any suggestions.
11-07-2003, 06:40 AM
DVD PIRATE III

Quote:

Originally posted by ZaZu@14 October 2003 - 18:25
I had to disable Pop-Up Stopper to use the links

on the site only Sticky,Floating Banner and Dropdown worked

I use ZoneAlarm w/WebFiltering as well

I had to do the same with Zone Alarm Pro 4 With Web Filtering
12-13-2003, 01:00 AM
DarthInsinuate

just thought i'd bump this topic - its pretty conclusive that Admuncher is the best,

also consider Firebird and Opera, the test says non-standard browsers shouldn't see anything