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Bypass AdBlock Removal Popup on certain websites?

XACT

We are filtering WebAds via our UTM and have now the problem, that some useful websites show a website-overlay telling me that I should turn off my adblocker to view the site.

Is there a way to do this, for example allowing doubleclick.net for the website www.spiegel.de (that's the one that doesn't work at the moment...)? I don't want to allow doubleclick.net globally.

Thanks in advance

Marco



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    I'm not sure if it'll work, but you can try to add www.spiegel.de to Web protection -> Filtering Options -> Websites and manually configure another category. However I kinda think that the doubleclick link inside this website will still be seen as an ad, but it's worth a try....

    If above doesn't work, you can try to add an exception under Web protection -> Filtering Options -> Exceptions for www.spiegel.de and exclude URL filter.

    Managing several Sophos firewalls both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

  • 0 in reply to apijnappels

    Unfortunately this doesn't work, I tried both suggested methods. I presume the reason is that doubleclick.net is farther being scanned and blocked because I only have an exception for www.spiegel.de and not for doubleclick.net... :-(

    But if I create an exception for doubleclick.net it will always be let through (yeah, that works) but that's not whats's intended.

    Doesn't have anybody else these problems? Any more suggestions? Thanks in advance!

  • 0 in reply to XACT

    You are right.   UTM scans each component URL individually, because each component is acquired individually.   This is the necessary way to do things.   I once had a user navigate to a church website because she was planning to attend a funeral.   The website was infected.  Fortunately UTM threw an APT alarm, and blocked the traffic, when the website tried to send her to a botnet command-and-control site in the Ukraine.  (APT should always be set to BLOCK)   Trusting a primary URL does not mean that every embedded URL can be trusted.

    To get your desired result, UTM would have to allow exceptions based on the combination of Referrer and URL.  I wonder if any webfilter product does that.

    I think your are stuck either allowing doubleclick.net for all users, allowing all ads for selected users, or living with the restrictions created by the website's need for revenue.

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    You are right.   UTM scans each component URL individually, because each component is acquired individually.   This is the necessary way to do things.   I once had a user navigate to a church website because she was planning to attend a funeral.   The website was infected.  Fortunately UTM threw an APT alarm, and blocked the traffic, when the website tried to send her to a botnet command-and-control site in the Ukraine.  (APT should always be set to BLOCK)   Trusting a primary URL does not mean that every embedded URL can be trusted.

    To get your desired result, UTM would have to allow exceptions based on the combination of Referrer and URL.  I wonder if any webfilter product does that.

    I think your are stuck either allowing doubleclick.net for all users, allowing all ads for selected users, or living with the restrictions created by the website's need for revenue.

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