Highest Rated Review by the Community
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May 18 '00
Pros: saves your privacy in many ways - and time! FREE!
Cons: hurts free services that depend on ads if used inappropriately
Summary: Yes, this software lets you steal money from epinions.com and other sites that get revenue from banner advertising.
Webwasher, they were not the first but they made it perfect.
A 3-man-team of Siemens engineers wrote this ... read more
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Jan 10 '02
Pros: Very effective and highly configurable ad and privacy filter, it's free
Cons: Some web pages do not function with this software, Pop-up window filter is too generic.
Summary: Webwasher 3.0 is a highly configurable and very effective web ad and privacy filter. It installs as a proxy on your own machine which means it sits "between" your browser and the internet connection. Installation is fairly straight forward and IE and ... read more
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Nov 20 '01
Pros: Removes Banner Advertising, Popups, and...
Cons: Slowed my Operating System to a crawl!
Summary: I am a retired Computer Analyst (28 years), and enjoy fine tuning programs. I have a 56k modem internet connection, that "really slows down", during peak usage periods! Waiting for the Banner Advertising, and Popups to load, was driving me to ... read more
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Nov 18 '01
Pros: Very effective and highly configureable ad and privacy filter, it's free
Cons: Some web pages do not function with this software, Pop-up window filter is too generic.
Summary: Webwasher 3.0 is a highly configurable and very effective web ad and privacy filter. It installs as a proxy on your own machine which means it sits "between" your browser and the internet connection. Installation is fairly straight forward and IE and ... read more
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Jul 15 '01
Pros: Life without ads is great!! It's free! Great tech support.
Cons: Can be difficult to set up. Deprives ad supported web sites of revenue.
Summary: WebWasher is one of several products available that block ads on web pages. You don't know how much more enjoyable surfing the web is without ads until you've tried it!
Blocking ads may deprive web sites of revenue, but so few people block ... read more
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May 12 '01
Pros: If only it worked... it would be truly great. The statistics window is superb.
Cons: Crashes, browsing agonizingly slow, preference corruption, difficult to uninstall, left proxies configured incorrectly.
Summary: Is this beta software?? This program caused me the most amount of frustration of ANY software since MS Word 3. It repeatedly crashed two of my machines (PB G3/500 Pismo, G4 dual 450, both with 256 MB/ OS 9.1/ IE 5/ Netscape 4.77). Browsing slowed to a ... read more
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Oct 23 '00
Pros: Rids net ads
Cons: Stops the net circus
Summary: Are you already tired of seeing Razor scooters pop up on every banner ad? Is your head pounding with the image of Buzz Lightyear? Tired of seeing Pikachu pop up on your screen? Time to get busy and download Webwasher.
Webwasher is an ... read more
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Aug 08 '00
Pros: Death to Ads!!! (Oh yeah, and small download and stable and system-friendly!!)
Cons: Will not work with some ISP's, refining configuration takes some time to learn
Summary: I discovered this little gem - less than 1MB download - over a year and a version ago. I simply don't want to surf without it. It's freeware for personal use and very reasonably priced for commercial sites.
WebWasher acts as a proxy server for ... read more
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May 19 '00
Pros: Best browser proxy for windows
Cons: Not as powerful as it could be
Summary: Privacy on the internet has been getting more and more attention every week. In the past year, I've seen privacy issue after issue plastered all over discussion boards: Cookies that track your website visits, what cookies can actually reveal about ... read more
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Jan 30 '00
Pros: It's highly configurable, can be easily turned off, gives you statistics, free, auto upgrade (upgraded frequently), small installation file size
Cons: sometimes filters useful things
Summary: I have used Webwasher since its v 1.0 (now with 2.1.1), and have loved it from the time I read about it. Software being able to filter most of the advertising from the Internet was like a dream come true.
When I had a 33600 modem those gif ads ... read more
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Oct 27 '99
Pros: removes clutter and saves time
Cons: greater specificity might be nice
Summary: WebWasher is a different kind of filter program. It doesn't care what the page is about, it only cares about structure.
I installed it because I strongly dislike cute little Web animations--they make my eyes hurt--and with WebWasher I don't ... read more
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Oct 12 '99
Pros: Free, effective, default configuration works well, saves lots of time
Cons: Lots of configuration options if you choose to use them
Summary: Do you find yourself waiting forever for certain web pages to load? Are you annoyed by banner advertisements, pop-up windows, and other schemes that website authors use to get your attention? When I had a 28.8 modem in particular, I used to surf with ... read more
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