AdsNoMore
It happened so that I installed AdsNoMore just after AdsGone. The first thing that came to my mind was: this is the same application but without those obvious flaws. The design turned out to be quite good without being superfluous tawdry. The advantages of the tool are the possibility to block Flash ads and update the black list directly from the developer’s website. In all other respects, AdsNoMore still reminds of AdsGone both by the quality of the application and by most of its functions. The only functional difference is the lack of redundant features like assigning hotkeys and protection from spy software. I personally failed to understand the meaning of setting a password for ads blocking, especially taking into account the multi-user nature of Windows, therefore I tend to consider this option totally useless. Thus, lack of the above features can hardly be a disadvantage of AdsNoMore. In the result, having taken a closer look on the application, I concluded that this blocker provides nothing fundamentally new and useful, except for a pair of options.
AdsCleaner ( banner ads )
Being guided by the criteria listed above, I made bold to declare the absolute winner of the analysis. As you may already guess, it is AdsCleaner. To be furnished with proof and to ground my choice, I decided to provide a detailed description of all its major features. In short: this is the only tool with multilanguage support, including Russian. As far as the design is concerned, AdsCleaner found the golden mean between the convenient functionality and attractive appearance.