Here’s a new version of another program designed to block popup ads, but which also performs the (admittedly increasingly common) trick of opening multiple browser windows at once. It’s called AdsCleaner.
I haven’t tried it, but I do like the honest PR release, just out, so I am going to quote: “New version features optimized process of ads blocking that has greatly influenced the operating speed. In opinion of AdsCleaner users, deceleration during the process of ad blocking was, perhaps, the main inconvenience peculiar to the early versions of the application. Now this inconvenience is eliminated.” I wish other companies were so honest.
AdsCleaner 2.0 cost $20. It is developed by SoftInform, which sounds like a computer division of the KGB. Which turns out not to be too far from the truth: As with a lot of these smaller software companies, it’s dang hard to find out where they’re based, which is a shame, because there’s nothing wrong with coming from places like Minsk in Belarus. Which is where I think SoftInform comes from.