What he said in the e-mail about Adguard kinda proves my point. I do understand that he's probably overwhelmed, but still, could be more professional about it. In fact reading their forums, it seems the administrator over there (Jeff, not Murray, who seems MIA) seems kinda rude to paying customers on their forums when they're asking simple questions about IE11 support and a new version. the whole IE11 debacle), updates on development and possible release dates/frames. Ad Muncher's development team doesn't seem to in-tune with its users regarding support (e.g. Avatar, how many developers are on the team? Also, the Adguard development team seems to be more than Ad Muncher, which allows for faster turnaround of releases. The next version of Adguard which is going to go into beta testing soon will have userscripts support, a first for any other adblocking program out there. Compare that to Adguard, which has made major strides in the last 6 months - first HTTPS filtering and the WFP driver (allows filtering of Windows 8 Metro/Modern UI apps and Internet Explorer in Enhanced Protected Mode). My guess is the development team seems to be very small. It seems to me the main developer is busy developing other programs (or so I've heard). They've been promising a major update for years now, with HTTPS filtering among other things. Adguard uses the Adblock Plus system of rules, which is much more simple to deal with and allows easy importing of rules from Adblock Plus to Adguard. Back in the days I asked on the forums about that, and never really got a reply. Before I learned a thing or two about CSS and HTML, I had a total nightmare trying to block seemingly simple ads. Figuring out how to block ads manually with Ad Muncher's rules was a pain. I do hope, at some point, the development team expands the filtering capabilities to include other programs, like instant messaging programs (e.g. In contrast Adguard by default only filters browsers (along with any other executables you specify). It was a pain in the rear to setup the whitelist for all my processes because I had to start every process for it to show up in Ad Muncher's list. I hated that by default it filtered all connections system-wide, instead of prompting the user to blacklist certain applications. So, as for the issues I experienced with Ad Muncher. Sure, for the first year I didn't have HTTPS blocking capabilities, so I was still dependent on browser extensions and userscripts to take care of those. When I found Adguard a year and a half ago, I was pleasantly pleased with how well it handled browsers. Then, I started using Chrome along with Firefox, then Chrome along with Firefox and Internet Explorer and I started looking into adblocking solutions for each browser. At the time, I didn't need anything else. What made me stop using Ad Muncher completely was Adblock Plus for Firefox when it became popular. I used Ad Muncher a great deal over the last decade and for periods I had to stop using it due to various issues I had with the program, which I'll go into detail about later in this post. So much less headache.īelieve me, I feel your pain. So for those who are in doubt between AM and Adguard or still using AM, my advice is: Get Adguard and forget Admuncher. I personally think that reply is garbage and Im pretty certain that my decision for Adguard was the best. I received a reply from Jeff Cole, one of the guys behind AM, saying Adguard is a poor substitute to their product AM and claiming that new version of AM will be avaliable in proper time. Also, I said I was moving to Adguard after a sucessful trial and complains. The answers were the same I told already.outdated gui, unfixed bugs, no IE11 support and so on. Plus, after uninstalling Admuncher for good and discover Adguard (after 14 day trial), I replied a feedback about why I was uninstalling Ad Muncher. Those guys really think their customers are stupid or something. I asked for help, and the best I got was a moron like advice that I should downgrade IE version or simple using another browser. Ad Muncher is not compatible with IE11, including Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 versions. The last drop of water was the Windows 8.1 that brought IE11. I just would like to tell anyone interested that I was using Admuncher for last 3 years and during this time, I haven´t seen any updates or bug fixing on that app. I just bought a premium license of Adguard on a move from Ad Muncher.
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