Reviewed by: originalfred
Duration of ownership: 1 Years
Strengths: It is very easy to add new blocking rules.
Weaknesses: Yahoo seems to have figured out a way to defeat this ad blocker. Sites like Yahoo Mail will only work if they are on the white list.
Overall Evaluation: Very good program, but it needs to be updated to deal with Yahoo.
Reviewed by: Elsie
Duration of ownership: 3 Days
Strengths: Adblock Pro does all that it promises. It even stopped all of those nagging, infuriating flash banner ads.
Weaknesses: None.
Overall Evaluation: Excellent Product. It stopped all ads completely which made pages load faster.
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