[SOLVED] Adblocking as easy as on OpenWRT

[minime]

Hi,

First, sorry for the provocative title of my post, but it got your attention, isn't it?  :-)

I'm looking for something like this: https://github.com/teffalump/adblock
Which is incredible easy to handle.

I know there is Squid, but it's not as easy to handle as the referred above, I think, or do i miss something?

Many thanks!

[fabian]

There is a how to in the docs about filtering using the proxy:
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/proxywebfilter.html

[minime]

Yes, thanks, I saw that too, but this makes the use of Proxy settings neccessary, right? I don't want to touch the clients. I just want OPNsense to filter. Do I misunderstand?

[DokuKäfer]

You must use transparent proxy

[minime]

Thanks, will try that. Do I need to do follow step 6, too?

[DokuKäfer]

I think this is not the right how to for you.

@Fabian can you tell more about transparent proxy? Is this the right howto for his claims?
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/proxytransparent.html

[fabian]

A transparent proxy does not need any configuration on the client.
When the proxy runs in transparent mode, depending on your configuration, any connection to port 80 (HTTP) and / or 443 (HTTPS) will be redirected to the proxy by a firewall rule.

OPNsense has a template for those rules, so you just have to click the link in the help texts.

In case you enable the transparent mode, step 6 in the Web Filtering How To is not required.
Instead you should use the link DokuKäfer provided.

Regards

Fabian

[minime]

Many thanks for your help! I will test it and report back (just to complete this thread).

[minime]

It works, but it is not as elegant as the solution I was referring to.