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9re990
Oct 19, 2019Aspirant
HOWTO enable Adblock on Circle?
I have an R6400v2 (Nighthawk AC1750)
Firmware V1.0.4.82_10.0.57
Circle Parental Control Info
Agent Version: 2.0.8.9
App Database Version: 1.3.1
How do I enable the adblock feature? Is ad blocking part of any Filter Level?
I have configured myself as a user in Cirlce and my laptop and phone do appear in my device list. I have tried all filter levels, but am still seeing ads on my devices.
What I can do is go to a site e.g. washingtonpost.com and then check my visited history on the circle app and manually block all domains that seem look like analytics or ad services corresponding with the time I loaded the webpage. For the above site, I get:
app-measurement.com
apptentive.com
bizbible.com
cloudflare.com
cookiebot.com
crazyegg.ecom
g2crowd.com
lookbookhq.com
marketo.com
mktoresp.om
and more.
I can manually block all the URLs until site breaks and then maually un-block sites untl the site loads, but this can't be what Circle had in mind when they say ad blocking is a feature.
Hi 9re990, engineering has confirmed that the ad blocking feature has been discontinued. When using a desktop browser, you can install ad blocking extensions instead.
Dexter