Filters. What's it?

Filters are used to match the URL there the unwanted content may be located. Filter is the text line representing the part of the URL that should match unwanted content. For example: filter line banner will remove any banners/adverts located at the following URLs:

http://www.somesite.com/banners/cool.gif
http://banners.somesite.com/cool.gif
http://www.somesite.com/images/banner.gif

That was the simple filter example. But you may use more complex filters with wildcards (very similar to file system wildcards). For example: filter ad?.* will match all the following URLs:

http://ads.somesite.com/cool.gif
http://ad1.anothersite.com/cool.gif

but will NOT block the following URLs:

http://www.adsite.com/cool.gif http://ad10.somesite.com/cool.gif

Note: The http:// prefix is simply ignored when matching URLs. So, don’t include it into your own filters.

See Also

• Adding new Filters
• Adding Filters from the viewing page
• Disabling Filters