So I’ve gotten fed up with advertising and spam again. I’ve mentioned Popfile for email filtering in the past. If you spend the time to get it up and running you’ll be psyched, no more spam. Or very little anyway.

But now I have a new favorite. I’ve tried a variety of pop-up blockers for web browsing, and some have worked ok. But now I’ve discovered a better tool – the proxomitron. It’s a proxy server you run locally on your machine and it works miracles, you will not see any ads at all if you take the time to set it up. And setup is easy as pie compared to popfile. Plus all it takes is a single right-click to set it into bypass mode in case you want to visit a site that has ads you want to see. Well worth checking out if you’re tired of the barrage of advertising you have to suffer through when browsing.