Ad Blocking lists

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Sophos is awesome and amazing and like other people here have requested it would be amazing if we could import adblocking lists like this one. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts 
 If you can already achieve this could someone please help me. I found one other post about this and I did not see a solution. Maybe I did not notice?

rfcat_vk · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 there are application and web proxy functions for blocking adverts you need to build your firewall rules around the existing functions.. You don't need to create a list because the list is already created and you can build your own if you want to block a specific set. 
 Ian

Prism · Answer

Hello! 
 There's no easy way to do this because of two reasons. 
 
 The Sophos Firewall is limited to 2.000 domains within a single custom category. 
 It can't import HTTPS lists, (Only plain-text HTTP.) 
 
 You can either find a good and small Ad Blocking list then import It as a category (If It's bigger than 2.000 domains you can cut the txt file to multiple file), or try to find a way to automate It while using the Firewall API. 
 But, depending on your scenario, the default (already available) Advertisements category could be enough for you.

Erick Jan · Answer

Hi, 
 Thank you for reaching out to Sophos Community. 
 You may refer to the following KB for creating/importing a custom web category list. 
 Sophos Firewall: Create a custom web category: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000035913?language=en_US

alan weir · Answer

Hello. As an alternative, you can create regex entries for blocking sites with regular expressions/keywords instead of URLs. It is possible to add these expressions in the web filtering rules. 
 Have a look here: github.com/.../regex.list

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