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Comparison of Parental Control Tools for Blocking Advertisements on a Home Network

2021; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-73689-7_97

2194-5357

Khaznah Alhajri, Wadha Al-marrai, Amani Alzahrani, Ezaz Mohammed AL-Dahasi, Maha A. Alghamdi, Dabiah Alboaneen,

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting

The instruments of advertising on the Internet are increasing. Advertisements may be a source of inconvenience and threats. This paper presents a comparison among three different tools for blocking advertisements, namely parental control tools, AdBlock Plus, and Pi-hole. This comparison aims to evaluate the effectiveness of these tools in blocking advertisements. The result showed that the Pi-hole is the most effective tool to block advertisements on the entire home network, while the other tools vary in the level of blocking advertisements on the network.