You can create a web policy per workspace that silently blocks online advertisements and banners. This feature is available for both the web filter rule and the explicit web filter rule. A web filter rule takes precedence when Silent Ad Blocking is enabled.
Enable Silent Ad Blocking
- Go to https://se.barracudanetworks.com and log in with your existing Barracuda Cloud Control account.
- In the left menu, click the Tenants/Workspaces icon and select the workspace you want to enable Silent Ad Blocking for.
- Go to Security Policy.
- Expand the Web Filter menu on the left and select Settings.
- The Settings page opens. Specify a value for the following:
Silent Ad Blocking – Click to enable. By default, Silent Ad Blocking is disabled.
- Click Save.
After the configuration is saved, you can see that in the selected workspace, online advertisements are silently blocked. For example, if you create either a web filter rule or an explicit web filter rule with Action=Allow, the Category selected as Advertisements or Banners, and Silent Ad Blocking enabled, advertisements will no longer be silently blocked when routing web traffic through appliances.
Disable Silent Ad Blocking
- Go to https://se.barracudanetworks.com and log in with your existing Barracuda Cloud Control account.
- In the left menu, click the Tenants/Workspaces icon and select the workspace you want to disable Silent Ad Blocking for.
- Go to Security Policy.
- Expand the Web Filter menu on the left and select Settings.
- In the Settings page, specify a value for the following:
Silent Ad Blocking – Click to disable.
- Click Save.
After the configuration is saved, you can see that in a selected workspace, advertisements are no longer silently blocked when routing web traffic through appliances.