PFSENSE WEB FILTER WITH PFBLOCKERNG - Filter Ads and Malicious Websites
Channel: Open School Solutions
Date: 2020-10-22

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If you visit an average website today, countless scripts and trackers are loaded. This allows the website operators, Google, Facebook, etc. can collect data about you and track you through the vastness of the internet. Fortunately you don't have to surrender to this hustle and bustle and there are many useful extensions e.g. for the browser (uBlock Origin, uMatrix, etc.). These solutions have the disadvantage that you have to install them on each device and for each browser separately. Therefore, I would like to describe how you can build a pfSense web filter with pfBlockerNG to filter advertising, unwanted content and malicious websites network-wide. This is useful in a home or school network, for example.