AOTop - Ad Obfuscating Tool 2.06

In a very real sense, AOTop was designed to function as the visual equivalent of the popular TV/Remote Audio "Mute" button, but in an automated and intelligent way.

One basic goal and tenet of the design philosophy of this Tool was to allow its users to be as independent as possible. To be free from having to pay outrageous monthly service fees for on-going Ad banner protection, to be free from having to rely on an ISPs service being up-and-running (not to mention the sticky Privacy or Security issues here), and to be free from having to use other commercial available methods of Ad protection that change Operating System files and risk the integrity of your system. The AOTop Tool meets this desired independence, safety, and low cost criteria by existing as a locally installed and run Application on your Desktop System without any need for a third party ISP intermediary service, and by accomplishing all it does programmatically through VB 5.0 and the Operating Systems published Programming API. None of the crucial lower level Operating Systems Drivers, .DLLs, or .Exes are modified or replaced by AOTop as theres no need to do so.

Another basic goal and tenet of the design philosophy of this Tool, and perhaps as equally important, was the ability to provide a much higher degree of choice, flexibility, and personalization of the Tool and its operation than is currently provided by or possible with other commercial Ad protection Tools available. The AOTop Tool meets this flexibility criteria by providing a large number of directly user alterable features and methods to help it accomplish its Ad coverage goal. It can operate equally as well in either the Chat, IM, Page or Browser window environments or in any one dedicated ISPs On-Line service client application window environment that may contain multiple subordinate Child windows. It can even be used when you are not connected to an ISP, but still wish to cover up any element of your Desktop or of a running Application. The many personalization options are detailed in the Tools On-Line context-sensitive Help and Users Guide.

Finally, the AOTop Tool was designed to be able to serve for other purposes beyond just Ad Protection. Notably, one such use is that the Tool can also double as a simple Image or Picture File Viewing utility that maintains a sessions viewed Image History list allowing for selective Image recall during that session and from session-to-session automatically. Another such example is the ability to use any AOTop Link Form Title as a 1-Line Note utility allowing the display of the Date and Time in Real-time, or any textual content that you might care to display.

AOTop Method Advantages =======================

Neither the Internet Proxy 3rd party service Ad removal method or the system component alteration Ad removal method offer independence, security, privacy, customizability, low cost, the ability to cover up other than Browser Window Ad content, or the ability to cover up MSN or AOL Ad content. Neither of these methods address the newest concern of Web sites monitoring your PC and being able to detect that you are blocking their Ad data. Nor do they adequately address the legal issues that present themselves when you consider that these methods, or services, actually target and prevent a list of known advertisers from pushing their content to your PC for a cost to y