Block Advertisements And Banners

Block Advertisements And Banners

Client Scenario

Ads are annoying and intrusive (64%)
Ads are disruptive (54%)
Ads create security concerns (39%)
Ads affect load time and bandwidth usage (36%)
Security was the main reason for blocking of Ads. Blocking of Ads include quicker loading and cleaner looking web pages with fewer distractions, lower resource waste (bandwidth, CPU, memory, etc.).

Solution

SafeSquid Secured web gateway (SWG) blocks all types of annoying ads and banners. So that you can save much bandwidth and access the web pages without any distractions.

Prerequisites

HTTPS Inspection should be enabled in SafeSquid. If not enabled, you can check our document - How to enable HTTPS Inspection

Access the SafeSquid User Interface

click on configure in safesquid interface 
click on search in access profiles

Search policy: "BLOCK ADVERTISEMENT" to Search


Edit policies and profiles to Enable as TRUE

click on edit to edit that policy
selecting True in enabled
clicking on save to save the policy

Edit templates to Enable as TRUE

this policy can also be enabled from the sidebar in templates of custom settings
selecting true in enabled
saving the policy by clicking on save 

Access youtube to verify

Try to access https://www.youtube.com/ you should get SafeSquid template instead of advertisements.
blocked template
Note: You can replace the default template with your custom template.




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