(based on 165 reviews)
Ad Muncher 4.81 Build 31376 Final

Ad Muncher by Murray Hurps Screenshot Ad Muncher Screenshot

Ad Muncher is a system-wide ad blocker, dealing with annoyances like banner ads and popups along with new rich media ads like video ads, interstitials and floating ads. Many types of spyware and adware installers are also blocked, as well as third-party tracking systems. It works out of the box, without the need to choose what you want blocked or configure third-party filter lists, and works with all browsers and many advert-displaying programs such as ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Music Jukebox, SopCast, iMesh, BearShare, Pando, PalTalk, etc.

  • License: shareware ($25)
  • Updated: Oct 21, 2009
  • Publisher: Murray Hurps

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Rated 50/50 by jspratjr at Feb 9, 2010

If you want to be stuck with using Firefox, use AdBlock plus - if you want ad blocking and want to use anything else (including Firefox), use Ad Muncher - easy to use and does what it says, worth every penny.

Rated 30/50 by ballyhairs at Feb 7, 2010

3 starts for good software, but who needs such a thing these days? Firefox with Adblock plus and your done

Rated 50/50 by kevinmook at Feb 6, 2010

As always, still the best ad blocker out there. Removes tracking scripts, potentially malicious portions of websites, and video ads from just about every video content provider out there. Top notch support is basically always available through the forum or IRC. Like everyone eles, really looking forward to gzip and regexp support.

Rated 50/50 by The Seeker 11 at Feb 5, 2010

The best ad blocker bar none. If you disagree, you're wrong.

Rated 50/50 by Lsavagejt at Feb 5, 2010

I like it too.

Rated 50/50 by ovd at Feb 5, 2010

Best Ad Blocker out there. It's not free but definitely worth the money. Official Website: http://shop.admuncher.com/ Download Ad Muncher v4.81 Final Build 31376 Direct link: http://shop.admuncher.co...nload.pl/AM-Install.exe

Rated 50/50 by 4122 at Feb 4, 2010

Plumber sums it all up perfectly.

Rated 50/50 by war593122 at Feb 4, 2010

Time to update the screen-shot here. ;) Still the best, v5 is going to kick major ass. :) And I already using ff 3.6 thank you very much, ad block + can't touch this.

Rated 50/50 by Uriel at Jan 30, 2010

The KING of kings!

Rated 50/50 by Diam0nd at Jan 28, 2010

I love it when people say that AM is bad/crap/etc because there is a free AdBlock. The only problem is that those people assume EVERYONE is using FireFox, well, sorry to break it down to you, but UNLIKE AdBlock Ad Muncher can work with ANY browser (yes, there are other browsers than FF) and a lot of applications which have banners. That's exactly the reason I like AM: I can use it with any browser I might want to use, be it Opera, IE or Chrome or whatever else. And, well, it just works.

Rated 50/50 by b0mmel at Jan 28, 2010

King of all ad-blockers.

Rated 50/50 by Lsavagejt at Jan 19, 2010

I like it too!

Rated 50/50 by war593122 at Jan 19, 2010

Still the best.

Rated 30/50 by FixXxeR at Nov 25, 2009

Please note: OVDs link is an AFFILIATE link (Not the OFFICIAL download link) and will get him money if you use it to buy this program or if you download it using said link and then purchase it later. The actual download link is at WWW.admuncher.com

Rated 30/50 by FixXxeR at Nov 25, 2009

Please note: OVDs link is an AFFILIATE link (Not the OFFICIAL download link) and will get him money if you use it to buy this program or if you download it using said link and then purchase it later. The real place to buy ad muncher is at https://www.admuncher.com/register.shtml. You would think that ad muncher's staff would prohibit the use of such a title in their affiliate program as it is highly misleading but I guess it is permitted.

Rated 10/50 by Sven123456789 at Nov 24, 2009

Yep, allot of morons out there paying for something thats already free.

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Nov 24, 2009

I've tried Proxomitron and could not stand its means of operation nor its interface. I need something that doesn't require me to screw around with it for 62 hours setting it up. That thing is not Proxomitron, it is Ad Muncher. I used AdBlock Plus for a long time. It works great as an ad blocker, but it's useless for popups and some other web page annoyances. Thus, I tried Ad Muncher again, after a few years of non-use protest due to the author's (apostrophe not misplaced) refusal to add HTTP 1.1/Gzip support. Now that I've been using it again, I'm pretty much hooked again. Firefox's native popup blocking support sucks. It really does. I've already explained why some of the other free solutions don't work for me. So, for the time being, I'm back to using Ad Muncher. I guess some people value their time over their money... As if there is a difference.

Rated 50/50 by ovd at Nov 24, 2009

Best ad blocker out there, supports all the browsers, have a lot of functions and daily filter list updates, it is a lot much better than any adblocker. It's not free but definitely worth the money. Download it from the official website: Stable Release http://shop.admuncher.com/ http://shop.admuncher.co...nload.pl/AM-Install.exe Beta http://shop.admuncher.co...42/52556805/B-31325.exe

Rated 50/50 by pjb at Nov 23, 2009

A good build as they all have been. I would not use a personal computer without this installed. Makes surfing the web a nicer experience.

Rated 30/50 by FixXxeR at Oct 23, 2009

For those who do not understand why the features I have mentioned before are important, let me provide you some information. Gzip is used by many websites to compress data being sent by the web server to the requesting client in an attempt to lower bandwidth usage. Ad Muncher not supporting this requires that data be sent in full size thus requiring more bandwidth. Many web server administrators enable this to reduce operating costs and to help users which might not be as fortunate as you and I to have a high speed connection. It helps those who also have limits on their bandwidth usage (say, 3gb/month as I have witnessed). From the AM Forums: http://www.admuncher.com...topic.php?f=5&t=282 regarding gzip support. HTTP 1.1 is a standard finalized in 1999: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html Given that this was finalized well before ad muncher came about,k I find it hard to believe that this support is not yet implemented. HTTP 1.1 offers significant advantages over the dated original standard. The most notable is persistent connections which allow connections to a server to remain open in the theory that a client who submits one http request is likely going to submit more. Again, this cuts down on unneeded bandwidth usage, server resource usage, and traffic to/from the site. From the AM Forums: http://www.admuncher.com...amp;t=3134&start=15 regarding http 1.1 Regex support offers users the ability to cut down on the number of filters required and can provide even more power in creating filters that catch various items that a single filter would miss. If you have ever messed with regex, you will understand its power when it comes to things like what ad muncher can do. Per site filtering offers users the ability to create a filter specific to one site which would help alleviate the possibility of a single filter breaking many sites. Yes, this can be done in a way now using CSS or JS, but that type of workaround should not be required.