» Ad Blocker for IE    Blocks all forms of advertising.    http://www.ie7pro.com/ad-blocker.html

» Ad Blocking via CSS    How to use CSS rules to block ads. The technique works for any Gecko-based browser and for Apple's browser, Safari.  It even works with the Thunderbird mail client.    http://www.floppymoose.com/

» Ad Extinguisher    Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Small proxy that blocks banner ads and some web bugs, also freezes animated gifs.    http://www.bhatt.id.au/adext/

» Ad Filtering programs    A list of advert filtering applications.    http://www.flourish.org/adremove/

» Ad Muncher    Shareware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. Small, patch for common web browsers. Removes banners, buttons, popups.    http://www.admuncher.com/

» AdSubtract    Freeware and commercial versions for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Runs in browsers java virtual machine and kills ads and cookies, slowish.    http://www.intermute.com/products/adsubtract.html

» AdsCleaner    Ad stopper and pop up blocker with additional features. Commercial. Windows NT/2000/XP.    http://www.adscleaner.com/

» Adzapper    Freeware for RedHat Linux 6.2/Unix/Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source rule-based filtering proxy written in Python to transform banner ads into transparent GIFs.    http://www.zaplet.org/adzapper/

» Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File    Free for all platforms. A hosts file that blocks most major advertisers, parasites, hijackers and unwanted search engines.    http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

» Cut the Crap (CTC)    Freeware for Unix/Linux. Proxy-like open-source daemon written in Python to filter out ads for dialup users.    http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC/

» Gorilla Design Studio Presents: The Hosts File    Free for all platforms. A hosts file for blocking the hostnames of major advertisers.    http://accs-net.com/hosts/

» Guidescope    Free for non-commercial use, for Linux/Sparc/Solaris/Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000. Proxy that filters ads by pattern matching and blacklist. Also filters cookies and referers.    http://www.guidescope.com/

» Internet Watcher    Commercial software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. Ad remover, automatically configures browser, and comes in five European languages.    http://www.internetwatcher.com/

» JunkBuster    Freeware for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/OS2/BeOS/Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Web proxy that filters banner ads, cookies, and referer tracking. Supports wafers and User-Agent spoofing.    http://internet.junkbuster.com/

» KillAd    Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Kills web browser pop-up ad windows.    http://www.fsc-soft.com/pleasedontlinkheredirectly.htm

» Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File    Free for all platforms. A hosts file that block major advertisers' hostnames.    http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

» PithHelmet    An extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to allow the user to control the blocking of ad images, Flash, Shockwave or midi loops.    http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

» Rabbit    Freeware for any OS with JAVA. Proxy designed to speed surfing over slow links, by removing adverts and compressing the data stream using gzip and jpegs. Innovative approach.    http://rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net/

» Squid    Freeware for Unix. Caching proxy which can block ads. You can also use squidGuard and SleezeBall to help do this.    http://www.squid-cache.org/

» V6 Web Engine    Freeware for Unix. General purpose Web filtering and processing proxy. Source and binary distributions available.    http://pauillac.inria.fr/~rouaix/V6/

» Web Ad Blocking Under Linux/Unix, BeOS, MacOS and Windows    Step-by-step instructions on how to block advertisements.    http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml

» WebFilter    Freeware for Unix. Web advertising filter based on Cern's httpd web server.    http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/NoShit/

» WebMask    Freeware program for Windows 95/98/NT4. Open source program to remove Web ads. No longer under development by author.    http://www.flourish.org/webmask/

» WebWasher Classic    Donationware for Windows. Ad filtering proxy which Includes Cookie, Popup, Animated Image, Referrer and Webbugs filter. Has automatic browser configuration for Netscape 3-6, Internet Explorer 3-5 and Opera 3-5.    http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webwasher_products/classic/

» ZeroClick    Freeware for Unix/Linux/Macintosh/Windows 95/98/ME/NT4. Web proxy that closes popup windows and turns banner ads into transparent GIFs. Configurable with regular expressions, pure Java and covered under GPL.    http://u1.netgate.net/~snowcat/zeroclick/

» gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking    How to use Mozilla and Firefox to create custom CSS rules to hide certain elements based on their attributes and values.    http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/

» hpHOSTS    Freely downloadable community managed hosts file for ad and malware site blocking.    http://hphosts.mysteryfcm.co.uk/

» nobanner    Freeware for Unix/Linux. Web proxy written in Perl which rewrites HTML on the fly to remove ads.    http://cornvalley.peak.org/nobanner/