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Sophos XG is not blocking the ads images : it does block the link but the image is still being displayed

rgomez

Hello,

 

Yesterday I disabled both the Web Policy and Application Control from my default firewall rule. After re-enabling (re-selecting basically the correct web policy and application control policy) the webpages I visit still show the ads, even if I can't follow the link. For instance, https://gizmodo.com shows the adds on the left and on the top. Clicking on the image correctly shows the blocking, but before there were no images being displayed. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/ shows also a lot of ads. I didn't know that amount of ads were on most of the pages I visit :(

I have tried testing the webpolicy with the URL of one of the images and it shows that it is blocked in the Policy Test page, but browsing the pages "in real lif" still display the ads, so I don't know what's wrong. The only thing I changed was specifing "none" in the Web Policy setting, and then reselecting the "No Ads or Explicit content" that was selected previously. I have already tried setting some other stuff that I think could be related, but nothing seems to work.

I have XG updated (version SFOS 17.1.3 MR-3) and the patterns are updated as of today.

Any ideas?

Thanks!



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    Hi,

    I tried both those sites and picked up many ads. I suspect either the ads are embedded in the page like facebook junk or the sites have a wrong classification. My ad blocking setup is similar to yours and does block most ads.

    Ian

     

    Checking more of the sites shows they are classified as NEWS or IT even though the news classification allows ads.

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    Hi,

    I tried both those sites and picked up many ads. I suspect either the ads are embedded in the page like facebook junk or the sites have a wrong classification. My ad blocking setup is similar to yours and does block most ads.

    Ian

     

    Checking more of the sites shows they are classified as NEWS or IT even though the news classification allows ads.

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