How To Block Ads And Banners In SafeSquid Proxy Server

"Ads and banners not only unnecessarily consume bandwidth, but also distract users, and can be exceedingly irritating at times. Few ads and banners keep rotating and fetching new contents, and keep consuming bandwidth in the background.

"SafeSquid can be configured to either blank out these ads and banners, or replace them with a custom html page or an image. In this tutorial I will explain how you can replace ads and banners with a custom html page. This requires configuring 3 sections, viz. Templates, Profiles and URL redirecting..."

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