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Block all ads except all Google ads?

Hi folks,

I always set on the URL Filter of the Web-Proxy the URL Category "Suspicious" to be filtered.

Now a customer complained that no google ads and sponsored links are displayed when he searches with google. That's because in this category web ads are filtered.

So I'm about to allow these ads, but i still want all other ads to be filtered.

How do I do this? I think I have to put something in "Always allow these URL's/Sites". But wthat to put there? ( I'm not down with this regex expressions, is there any lecture about it?)

Thanks, Albeck.

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0 Billybob over 11 years ago

If you are talking about the ads that are displayed on the google search page, you can add an exception under
webprotection--> web filtering-->URL Filtering (tab) and under always allow these sites add googleadservices and hit apply.
This will let you click on the ads on the search engine page.
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0 Albeck over 11 years ago in reply to Billybob

Yes, thats exactly what I did, but it has to be somethiing http://*[A-Z][0-9]blablup*googleadservices.*.com/*[A-Z]

And that's what I don't know, these regex expressions. So how does this exception has to be set exactly?

Thanks so far [:)]
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0 Billybob over 11 years ago in reply to Albeck
No regex needed. Just add the keyword you want allowed. Not as nice as regex but works for easy problems like the one you are having.

Probably something like
^http://[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.googleadservices\.com/
would work if you want to use regex under advanced settings. Regex is not required for keywork exceptions under url filtering.

Hope this helps
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0 Albeck over 11 years ago in reply to Billybob

Just for my clarification:

If I only put the keyword "googleadservices" without the regex expressions in the "allways allow" list, doesn't that mean, that also URLs like

http://xyz.com/abc/googleadservices or xyz.com Registry solutions for .xyz .college and .now gTLD's are allowed too?

Cause this would cause " a little" hole in the blocking allow URLs which could be abused...

Thanks, Albeck

However, with this keyword it works like a charm [:)]
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0 BarryG over 11 years ago

No, your examples wouldn't work with that REGEX as they don't have the string
googleadservices.COM

in them.

Also,
http://xyz.com/abc/googleadservices.com
would not match the regex because of the slashes ( / )

Barry
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0 MarkToo over 9 years ago

I know this is an old thread but, it was helpful to me in getting Google Ads enabled on my system. To get them to work I created a Filtering Option / Exception as follows...

Skipping:
URL Filter

Matching these URLs:
^https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?googleadservices\.com/pagead/aclk\?
^http://clickserve\.dartsearch\.net/link/click\?
^http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk

Hope this helps someone!
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0 Manuele Orlandi over 6 years ago in reply to MarkToo

Thank you. I've tried to add that rule in excepion tab but it doesn't work. Google ads are still blocked!
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0 Art Walker over 6 years ago in reply to Manuele Orlandi

I am having this same issue. Not sure what I turned on but they still get blocked.
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0 rfcat_vk over 6 years ago in reply to Art Walker

Hi folks,

have a look at your web protection -> application control settings.

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0 Manuele Orlandi over 6 years ago in reply to rfcat_vk

rfcat_vk said:

Hi folks,

have a look at your web protection -> application control settings.

look for what? My application control is disabled.

I found ha solution but I don't know if it covers only this kind of ads

^https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?googleadservices\.com

^https?://clickserve\.dartsearch\.net/

^https?://ad\.doubleclick\.net

It seems to work
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