Ad networks
Ad networks
Blocking is quiet by design. The Ad networks page is where you see it: every advertising network AdBolish stopped, how often, and every domain each one tried to use.
Counts stay on your PC. Allowed lookups are never recorded.
Use cases
When you'll reach for it — Ad networks
Real situations, not a feature list.
- See how much of a news site's traffic was advertising.
- Find out which ad networks follow you across the apps you use.
- Spot a network you rely on before it causes trouble, and allow one domain.
- Switch ad blocking off on its own while threat protection carries on.
What it does
Everything Ad networks handles
Built into AdBolish, and on by default where it should be.
Its own switch
The Ad blocking card holds Ads & trackers, on by default. Turning it off stops ad blocking only; threats and content filters carry on.
Ad networks stopped
Every advertising network AdBolish blocked, with its blocks, unique domains and share of blocks.
Drill into a network
Click a network to filter the domains below to its own, with the list that blocked each one and when it was last seen.
One-click allow
Allow on any domain adds it to your exclusions, so it's never blocked again.
The big picture on Overview
Blocked today, data saved (est.), blocks over the last hour, day or week, and the busiest networks of every kind.
Blocked per app
Overview also shows which programs on your PC tried to reach blocked domains most.
How it works
Using it, step by step
- 1
Open Ad networks
It's the second page in the sidebar's Protection section, or click Ad networks → on Overview.
- 2
Pick a network
Click a row in Ad networks stopped to see the domains behind it. Click it again to clear.
- 3
Allow what you need
Allow one domain, or allow a whole network from the Realtime log.
Under the hood
How it actually works
Where the numbers come from.
- Switch
- Ads & trackers (ads, trackers, analytics and metrics), on by default
- Counts
- All-time blocks per network and per domain
- Data saved
- An estimate at roughly 30 KB per blocked request
- Reset
- Settings ▸ Protection ▸ Reset statistics
AdBolish recognises the big networks by name. A blocked domain it doesn't recognise is filed by its name: one that looks like analytics or telemetry goes to Privacy, anything else here, under its own domain.
Also in AdBolish
The rest of the protection suite
Questions
Ad networks, answered
Get AdBolish — Ad networks included
Ad networks is part of AdBolish, free for Windows 10 and 11, with every other feature alongside it.