Now even people stuck with Windows 98 or 2000 who for whatever reason need to use IE6 can block ads, using the same EasyList that AdBlock Plus defaults to: http://simple-adblock.com/

12/19/2010 12:31:29 AM

IE6... ah that brings back memories of the good old days when someone could blame the porn sites in their browser history on the browser "acting possessed" or saying "a virus did it" and half the time you couldn't comfortably claim the person was lying. Even if they were, chances were good that by visiting those sites the computer actually had become infected by just such a porn-craving piece of malware and their story would seam believable.

Also, it this thread reminds me of this scene from an episode of the IT Crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAO68_IqIu4

12/19/2010 5:02:14 AM

IE6? I hope you mean 7 or 8?

12/19/2010 8:08:02 AM

I mean even 6

it would be even better if it worked all the way down to 4, or at least 5, so that users of all versions of Windows NT and old-school DOS-based Windows all the way back to 3.1 would be able to share in the love

12/19/2010 1:09:14 PM

lol, well played

12/19/2010 5:41:09 PM

k fuck this shit, false positives a-plenty and now the fucker wants to charge people $29.95 a pop?

anyway go here to make all your ad-blocking dreams come true: https://code.google.com/p/jansal/

1/31/2011 1:58:40 AM

o also Simple Adblock does not actually work in Windows 98

1/31/2011 2:58:35 AM

Since I made this thread, the people behind ABP made a version for IE, at first supporting all the way down to 6, but now setting the bar at IE8, because of its support for TLS1.0; it's still rough around the edges...

9/12/2014 6:04:55 PM