AdSubtract Pro blocks banner ads, pop-up and pop-under ads, text ads, multimedia ads, and cookies. It also blocks paid search-engine results. Search Sanity lets you put relevance back into your search results by removing sponsored listings from query results.
Editor's review of AdSubtract Pro This capable ad-blocker stops many forms of advertisements, although we found one pretty big caveat. AdSubract Pro stops banner ads, pop-ups, Flash ads, Web page animations, background sounds, and cookies. The unique Search Sanity feature eliminates paid search results from engines such as Google or Yahoo. The program baosts an attractive skinnable control panel and appears as an Internet Explorer toolbar, complete with statistics. As a bonus, AdSubract Pro can clean up your surfing history and several Windows system areas, but this feature doesn't function with alternative browsers. Other, more standard features include a whitelist and the ability to associate different sounds with different types of ads. Though that all sounds good, AdSubract Pro forces you to relinquish your e-mail address to use it. Worse still, you cannot opt out of the mandatory newsletters from directly within the installation screen. This utility certainly delivers a fine feature set and solid performance, but the unwanted e-mails may cause some users to look elsewhere.