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5 stars
Version: The Ad-Police 1.0.25
"Does What It Says..."
Pros: ...on the box! It's not the perfect answer to blocking ALL web-page advertising, but then what is? This will block the majority of Ad's served up along with most banners etc.. Site XYZ[dot]com had so many flipping ad's it took over 45 seconds to load the page! After running "The AD-Police", clearing ALL my cookies, and restarting my browser, XYZ[dot]com loaded the same page in about 10 seconds! Similar results on other sites as well. A very worthy addition to dwnld and install. Like it says, "run it once and forget it". It saves a backup of your original hosts file and allows you to remove URL's within the installed hosts list if you desire (although it is a manual hunt and peck process). It will speed up a lot of sites you go to simply because the ad-servers are being blocked. Worth the time and trouble for me. Very pleased with the results!
Cons: No search feature for URLS on list for editing and no way to ad to the list. No update file seems to be available that I could find on the site. That said, it still does a fine job of blocking the vast majority of ad servers (not all) and is a very worthy download.
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