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  2. Pi-hole - Wikipedia

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    Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application [3] [4] which acts as a DNS sinkhole [5] and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. [1]

  3. Ad blocking - Wikipedia

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    Based on reviews of AdTrap, this device uses a Linux Kernel running a version of PrivProxy to block ads from video streaming, music streaming, and any web browser, [74] while PiHole acts as a local DNS to block advertisement servers, stopping connected devices from showing most ads. Another such solution is provided for network-level ad ...

  4. Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) standard: ensure that an organization's browsers will find this file without manual configuration. This is the topic of this article. The WPAD standard defines two alternative methods the system administrator can use to publish the location of the proxy configuration file, using the Dynamic Host ...

  5. Internet filter - Wikipedia

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    For HTTP access the application gateway is called a web-proxy or just a proxy. Such web-proxies can inspect both the initial request and the returned web page using arbitrarily complex rules and will not return any part of the page to the requester until a decision is made.

  6. Classless Inter-Domain Routing - Wikipedia

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    Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR / ˈ s aɪ d ər, ˈ s ɪ-/) is a method for allocating IP addresses for IP routing.The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet.

  7. Captive portal - Wikipedia

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    The web-based form either automatically opens in a web browser, or appears when the user opens a web browser and tries to visit any web page. In other words, the user is "captive" - unable to access the Internet freely until the user is granted access to the Internet and has "completed" the captive portal. This allows the provider of this ...

  8. Browser user interface - Wikipedia

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    A browser user interface (or BUI) is a method of interacting with an application, typically hosted on a remote device, via controls presented within a web browser.This is an alternative to providing controls via a separate application with a dedicated graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI).

  9. Cross-origin resource sharing - Wikipedia

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    Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism to safely bypass the same-origin policy, that is, it allows a web page to access restricted resources from a server on a domain different than the domain that served the web page. A web page may freely embed cross-origin images, stylesheets, scripts, iframes, and videos.