Ad's are a real threat, can we get an improved adblocker module?

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Originally Posted by onenerdyguy

Actually, I'm a k-12 ed. customer and have been running Ad blocker for 4 years now without issue. It's been great, to be honest. I also pushout the Adblock extension to all my users chrome accounts as well, so we're double blocking!

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Adblocking is really a requirement these days IMO.

You could use OpenDNS, tick off WebSpam+Adware categories, then use the 'hidden' trigger to turn on Advertisement Blocking. Ironically they've removed the checkbox, but there is a covert way to enable it. Once that is done you can further improve it by adding the 'big 20' ad domains/hosts and a huge majority will be blocked at the DNS level.

I've also been looking into running a PiHole on my network devoted exclusively to adblocking. But the reality is - I think Untangle should really do this a whole lot better. Or provide a method to subscribe to our OWN databases such as iBlocklist with a triggered/scheduled task to update the database. Right now it feels so half baked and useless it's almost insulting.

Finally on the browser level, uBlock works, but I prefer blocking 'before' the browser but don't care to install Adguard for Windows due to potential conflicts with another FWD.

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Originally Posted by onenerdyguy

I also push out the Adblock extension to all my users' chrome accounts as well

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That helps explain why you don't see as many problems. The Adblock client will block the add before Untangle has a chance to see it.

I've tried Adblocker here a few times (not recently, admittedly), and it always ends up causing intermittent problems on random ad-supported sites. On a home network, that would be no big deal and probably rare enough I wouldn't care, but it was too much trouble chasing those down on a larger semi-public network.

The oddity is - adblocker causes more issues for us then running uBlock or something. Strange. Almost like a signature discrepancy.

Ideally we should just be able to import whatever filter lists we like into Untangle and go from there. I've run a couple other UTM's that allow you to point to sites like iBlocklist and drag off relevant lists from there, this is a feature I sorely miss in Untangle.