OverApps add-on replaces web based ad’s with apps, for free
You know the drill – you are searching the web on your computer and all of the advertisements littered around your favorite sites start to get dreary. At this point, it has long been tradition to install an adblocker of which cancels out adverts from being displayed such as Adsense and some affiliate types. Now, however, there is another solution which utilizes the wasted space of the dead advertisements by displaying apps.
It’s called OverApps, and this web browser add-on will allow you as the user to choose what is displayed where advertisements would have been. In your choices you are a little bit spoilt too, as you’ll be able to choose from Facebook, Twitter, a notepad, games, news feeds, weather, sports scores, celebrity gossip or utilities.
If all of this sounds like a fairly sound add-on to your browser (Firefox, Google Chrome IE7 and higher supported) then you’ll be pleased to know it is also free. Hit up the press release below to find out more.
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New Browser Add-on Enables Users to Control and Personalize Ad Space
SEPTEMBER 2011 – Recognizing a growing trend in the United States in which consumers want to limit their exposure to advertising, OverApps launched today in beta providing consumers the first opportunity to not only block online advertising, but also replace it with apps of their choice. The new – and completely free – browser add-on replaces annoying, distracting, unnecessary or just unwanted advertisements and empowers the consumer to customize that space to their own liking.
Offering “the web the way you want it,” OverApps users can choose from a gallery of fully functioning apps such as Facebook and Twitter feeds, games, news, weather reports, stock updates, clocks, photo slideshows, streaming web videos and utilities. There is zero cost for the user and, with approvals from the Better Business Bureau, Norton and McAfee, consumers can trust OverApps to personalize their web experience without risk to their computer or privacy.
“Ad blockers have become very popular. While handy, they miss the opportunity to do something great for users,” said Michael Herndon, CEO of Web Widget Works, LLC. “OverApps lets them repurpose ad space to suit their wants and needs. Keep track of celebrity tweets and post your own messages, see scrolling pictures of kittens, or brush up on Chuck Norris quotes. Whatever you’re in to, you can choose from our fun and useful apps to make the space your own.”
OverApps settings allow the user to fully customize the experience, including options to assign one app to appear in all ad slots across the web or select specific apps to appear on different web pages.
Consumers can learn more, install the free OverApps add-on and view a full list of available apps at www.overapps.com.
