Every web browser offers some form of blocking advertisements or commercials from being shown when loading websites. Firefox users have adblock plus or Noscript, Opera users have a built in option to block elements or BlockIt, Google Chrome users have also the choice between multiple ad blockers and Internet Explorer users can either use a [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, Software, Windows

The Firefox web browser offers an user several ways of manipulating web sites in realtime. The article discusses several of the possibilities that are available ranging from popular Firefox add-ons to userscripts and other means of website manipulation. We would like to encourage you to post additional tips and hints about website manipulation in the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Google Chrome does not come with an option to block Internet ads. Many think that this has been a deliberate choice by the Google development team to avoid harming Google’s core businesses Adsense and Adwords. Whatever the reason it surely means that the web browser is unattractive to those users who prefer to block ads [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

RIP – Remove It Permanently – is a Firefox add-on that adds options to remove elements on websites permanently. Elements can be pretty much anything from headers, images, advertisement, forms to flash content. Want Google without the Google logo? Digg without advertisement and user comments? RIP can do that for you and much more. Two [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

Adblock Plus is probably one of the most popular Firefox extensions of all time. It blocks almost any advertisement on the Internet and is highly effective. Users can add filters to Adblock Plus that whitelist those websites which means that ads on those websites will be shown. This is excellent for webmasters who want to make sure that their websites are displaying the correct ads and visitors who want to give something back to a website that they really like.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox