Create a "add-Blocking" program.

Dose anyone want to work together to make a add-blocking program?

Its not that hard really. Just knock up a simply webbrowser which cuts off the top section of the site.

Works like a charm. :)

I was thinking more like a program that would block ads shown in IE.

well... theres no way of determining whats an ad and whats not an ad.

Most ads contain the word "ad" "ads" "banner" or some other word like in their path or are a popups(Even if a popup isn't ad you can remove it anyway) or they are banner ads.

Theres no real way of doing it that way I'm afraid.

http://www.vbforums.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/House_VBForums/windrivers-125x125.gif

Is the link for the current ad. Even with the /ads/ folder, you can block that, cause not every server will have everything so organised.

Popups are the only thing that you can block effectively. However... if you could set which pictures the user didn't want to see, (like right click - block picture) then it would work well for a place like this. But, that might involve writing your own webbrowser control, which might be abit much. :)

Norton Internet security has a ad blocking program and it works very good.
I have Norton Internet Security and I don't see any ads.

I think that all we would need to know would is how to find out what a browser is trying to load and if a image contains the word "ad" or simmlar then stop the browser from loading it.

PC is right, and for the Norton Security ad blocker, I believe what it (and most other advanced blockers) does is reads the html on the page, and looks for words and/code in the html that would signify an ad. But, as PC said, there is no real way to determine what is and what is not an add, therefore somethings you didnt want blocked would be..vice-versa

Yep, the only way is to examine the file name when it loads to see if it contains an "ad" or a another word that other companies use.

a registered version of Netcaptor can also block urls. I use it all the time. you just type in the url you want to block like:
ads.*.net

It does a really good job but there are two problems I see with it.
1) The user has type/paste the url to block. This can also be seen as an advantage though.

2) It only works with IE. If it weren't for that I be using opera all day.

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But, as PC said, there is no real way to determine what is and what is not an add, therefore somethings you didnt want blocked would be..vice-versa

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Norton Internet Securty dosn't block anything other than ads.
IF a picture has the word "ad" in its path what could it be other than a add?

I sort of made an ad-blocking program. It blocked banner ads only in IE. It was a simple little program that can easily be figured out. Email me at [email protected] if you want to talk to me about a project.
-Chris

That would be great if you could help out CHR1S!:)