We have mentioned the release of the first Internet Explorer 8 ad blocking method less than two weeks ago. It involved importing a list of advertisers to the filter list of Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Filtering module. It was not really complicated but could pose problems to inexperienced users nevertheless as users had to find the right menu to import the list into the Internet Explorer 8 web browser. It also meant to enable InPrivate Filtering in Internet Explorer.
Adblock IE provides an easier approach that is offering the same results. It comes with a setup to install a browser helper object (BHO) in Internet Explorer 8. This object will manage the ad blocking in Internet Explorer. The add-on for Internet Explorer 8 is in an early stage which means it does not provide access to a graphical user interface or any options at all at this point in time. The ad blocking works fine on the other hand and this is basically what counts the most.
The developer plans to bring the functionality of both Adblock Plus and NoScript to Internet Explorer 8 that can be controlled from within the web browser. Adblock IE provides the means to block ads in Internet Explorer 8 right now with good prospect to provide a better usability and advanced features in the future. It could become a must have application for Internet Explorer 8. The program is compatible with Internet Explorer 8 and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 to be installed
To test if the add-on is installed properly do the following after Installation:
- Open Internet Explorer 8
- Click on Tools > Manage Add-ons
- Make sure Toolbars and Extensions is selected
- Scroll down until you see af0.Adblock.BHO with the status Enabled
You need to visit the project page for information about new versions of the Internet Explorer 8 add-on though.
Related posts:
- Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking
- Internet Explorer Commercial Remover
- Internet Explorer 8 Command Line Arguments
- Internet Explorer Tweaker
- Internet Explorer 8 Final
- Uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
- Internet Explorer 8 To Be Distributed Via Automatic Updates
- Optimize your Adblock Plus Filter List
Boo to NET 3.5 requirement!
doesn’t realy work :|
Yeah, the .NET 3.5 req is a deal-killer.
Please re-review when this thing becomes stable.
Another ad blocker for IE8 is Quero, which replaces the navigation bar with Quero’s universal search, address and find box. You will love this concept once you get used to it, but it is also possible to just use the ad blocker of Quero.
I hate this ad blockie thing.
dot NET? Wow that’s some LAZY programming.
It should require nothing other than IE8 itself!!
when will something less lame come along?
Very nice tool. Removes most ads. Some sneek in, but way better than not using anything.
Appearently the people posting here are ignorant. The .net framework is just a collection of classes that can be used in many languagues to speed up programming. Every languague includes some prebuilt/3rd party functions to save build time. No one that writes in bianary.
If any of you babys had ever written an IE BHO, in any languague, you would know that they are mainly using the APIs for IE. If you dont’ even know what a class or an API is, shut the hell up.
I did not write this, but as an open source programmer, it pisses me off when people make fun of something, someone made just to be nice. It would be a different thing if the comments had some substance to them, but just ragging on .net framework is just plan ignorant. The only post here with some useful info was Jojo.
There is only 1 reason I can see for hating the .net framework, and that is because you hate evil microsoft. Well, IE is a microsoft browser so why are you using it? For that matter why are you using Windows? Did you know that Microsoft has started to use C# in a lot of their products including – SQL server, Visual Studios, IIS, Windows, Media Player, Office, and IE. The reason that some of these don’t need the full .net framework installed is that when they are installed, they include the classes that they need into the GAC (Global Assembly Cache – google it if you don’t know what it is).
NOdaddy.com – you are just stupid. Lets see you do this?
Absolutely. .net framework just gives you all the classes needed to write excellent programs without all the hack work. I wouldn’t use anything else and I’ve been in the business for 25years.
lmao – if you’ve been in the business 25 years and say you wouldn’t use anything other than .Net it doesn’t say much about the content you’ve developed – anyone with any experience knows that .Net web apps are nowhere near as scalable as php or java; it’s a typical Microsoft solution – overengineered, and overcomplicated – and before you jump on this comment – I’m a .Net developer – I just realise its shortcomings.
If this program requires .Net 3.5 that’s fine BUT it should prompt the user to download it…
Mah, I couldn’t care less if you are pissed off about ignorant posters. You can educate people without the immature insults and rudeness. I would rather be obviously in need of learning about a computer than obviously in need of learning some manners.
You people should stop moaning about .Net.
It’s the future of windows programming. Actually, it’s the present as well.
After a few years of using C# with .NET… I vomit at the thought of doing any C++ coding for windows apps now. Coding for .NET is that much more productive.
Just download .NET and be done with it. 90% of you most likely already have it installed and dont even know it.
I say yeah to .NET!
As long as Microsoft has 95% of the desktop OS market and 90% of the server marker, there’s not much profit to p***** and moaning about it.
My brother’s a programmer and he tells me .Net ain’t going anywhere. So the choice is simple. (Tho’ I do agree that nothing should be installed on a computer without the owner’s consent. And if you don’t understand then LEARN.)
If you hate MSFT products THAT much, then build a better mousetrap. Eventually somebody will. It always happens. Two hundred years ago nobody could imagine anything other than the steam engine. Then a German guy invented the internal combustion engine.
Mah was a little more brusque than was necessary but I understand the frustration. It’s akin to when your car breaks down on the side of the road and you jump out and start screaming at it.
But a Mac, go Linux or Solaris or write your own OS. Otherwise, to reiterate, quit p***** and moaning.