Existing users, 
After downloading this, the disk image opened automatically and there was no presentation of the standard Apple warning to the effect: This is an application that you just downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it? Not only very naughty, how did the developer manage to over-ride this extremely beneficial warning?
Installation involves system files that are placed in places that a newbie would not intuitively understand. so why is there no uninstaller?
Immediately after installation, it would be normal practice to present a preferences dialog. Not this time! Go to its Preferences Pane and the options presented are so opaque no newbie could understand them. Unhelpful!
Again, after installation, Safari stopped working completely. Reason: This monkey of a utility reconfigured my Network/Proxy Server settings without asking. Again, no newcomer would ever figure out where to go to fix this insane and arrogant change in settings.
Avoid this bit of BS like the plague. The developer should be shot!
Plonk. And I hope like hell I've deleted _all_ of the offending bits of detritus. With no installation log, who knows?
GlimmerBlocker
Ad blocker for Safari.
Version: 1.4.2
Dangerous!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Brrrp Sunday, September 13 2009 @ 09:38 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Comments
Dangerous! - supercrisp1
Brrrrp's objections strike me as absurd. I had no trouble figuring out GlimmerBlocker, and I wasn't in a patient mood, with a crying baby, a stack of forms to fill out, and a long list of Snow Leopard incompatibilities to sort out.Do preference panes throw up a warning dialog? I don't recall. But I think that suggesting that the author of GB is intentionally circumventing such a warning seems quite paranoid.
It's freeware. If you don't like it don't use it. And I suppose that, if you must attack it, it's at least helpful to be at least recognizably a crank, as Barrrrp here is.
Tuesday, October 06 2009 @ 01:02 PM PDT
Attacked my cat - Cowicide
This thing got me too. After installing it, the program made my computer leap into the air and try to strangle my orange tabby. Thank God I was able to uninstall this app before it off'ed my Snuggles.Saturday, October 10 2009 @ 06:15 PM PDT
Dangerous! - walfrieda
Guy, don't complain about software if you, YOU, are to stupid to use it. GlimmerBlocker does what it says, and does it well. If you rely on a warning message telling you that you downloaded a program from the internet a few seconds after you did it - what does it tell about you? If you don't understand what a proxy is, why do you complain that if you install a new proxy program it is used by default? If you don't understand the preference settings of a program, why do you rate a program "dangerous"? Of course it is NOT dangerous - but using a computer without the slightest bit of understanding, yes, THAT is dangerous. Don't blame a useful and easy program for your own inability.Reply to This
Sunday, September 13 2009 @ 10:13 PM PDT