[Tumbleweed_Connection]

My software blocked the pop-up related to this URL. Go to the article and experience hypocrisy.

[Huck]

That's pretty funny. I have pop up killer and ad subtract running at home, little freeware programs. And I use Search and Destroy spybot software, also free.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Geez, I got 3 new popups.

[Charlotte Corday]

Now if MS could just put in a key to kill all images (great for browsing FR and all other sites where the text is the content) they'd be caught up to where Opera was three years ago.

[grobdriver]

Advertisers love them because they grab customers' attention.

And pisses them off...

[Bug]

I haven't had an unwanted pop-up or pop-under ad on my screen since switching to Mozilla. It has an excellent spam filtering capability as well.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Google and others already offer pop-up-blocking software. But you have to download it from the Web, which takes time and know-how. That's why only about 15% of Web surfers use it, Nail says.

Not entirely. Another major reason that only about 15% of Web surfers use pop-up blocking software is because it's a pain in the ass.

[kinghorse]

The most annoying form are prelude ads and imbedded Macrovision CRAP. You know the ones I speak of. They follow you down the web page until you locate the tiny time delayed X to close. Since Microsoft will not prohibit these, what's the point. Google already made an elegant fix for popups.

[zeebee]

Netscape has had a built-in pop-up blocker for quite a few versions now.

So does Safari for Mac OSX.

I won't use IE .

[Petronski]

Free, for Linux or Windows, and with painless, automatic pop-up killing built-in.

[Cicero]

I use the Google Toolbar, which can be set so it doesn't report back to Google by going into Options. But I don't use the Popup blocker function because I prefer AdAware.

AdAware is, so far as I know, the only advertising blocker that blocks all the ads before they are downloaded. For that reason, it speeds up instead of slowing down loading of web pages. It blocks most banner ads as well as popups, and it can be configured to block ads on AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo Groups as well.

There's a small shareware fee to pay, but as far as I'm concerned it's head and shoulders above the other programs currently available. That may change if Microsoft enters the game, but it's been true for the past year or so.

[RWG]

Safari already has the bock pop-ups option, had it for over a year.

[ArrogantBustard]

Zone Alarm does a good job of killing pop-ups and other annoyances.