When you are finished selecting which blacklists you wish to use, click Save for the changes to take effect.īlacklist URL: Shows the location on the Internet where that particular blacklist can be found.ĭescription: Display a name (if the creator used one) for the particular blacklist.ĭelete: Clicking this button while a Blacklist URL is checked will permanently delete that Blacklist.
Checking that box will enable the download (and update) and usage of that particular DNS blacklist. On: Clicking on one of the blacklist rows will make a checkbox appear at the far left of the row. This section contains a table containing a list of the various blacklists FreshTomato can download and use for ad blocking. There are three optional settings that help ensure smooth Adblock operations: These two steps are mandatory, as clients bypassing FreshTomato's DNS server will not have their ads blocked. To enable the actual DNS server, select “Use internal DNS” under Advanced/ DHCP/DNS. For the latter method you would first enable DHCP under Basic/ Network. This can be done either by static IP configuration (on the device itself) or through FreshTomato's DHCP Service. Again, the URL will be blocked.įor Adblock to work properly, client devices must be configured to use FreshTomato's IP address (dnsmasq) as their DNS server. 1)Īlternatively, DNS queries are replaced with 127.0.01, the loopback address, (the same address as the client making the DNS request). If pixlserv is not integrated, some pages/frames will draw with an error from the web browser, stating the page could not be found. is an invalid/unknown IP address, no connection is made to that URL and no page is drawn, if pixlserv is installed and integrated with Adblock. It then replaces whatever dnsmasq resolves as the advertiser's correct IP address with an address of 0.0.0.0. It downloads lists of URLs/domains to block.
These sections include: Adblock Settings, Blacklist URL, Blacklist Custom and Whitelist.įreshTomato's ad blocker works through DNS cache poisoning. Please note that this guide only works for the desktop version of IE10 and it does not support the Metro/Modern browser.The Adblock page contains settings to configure FreshTomato's built-in ad blocker.
That’s basically it! Restart Internet Explorer and simply load your Flash website just like any other page. Click on the “Tools” button, select “Safety” and make sure the “ActiveX Filtering” option is not checked. Make sure you place the classic “Close the Windows Registry Editor and launch desktop version of Internet Explorer. Select the newly-created “ Flash” key, click the “ Edit” menu, and hit the “ New” option to create a new “ String Value.” Name the new value “ DebugDomain.”ĭouble-click the “DebugDomain” option to launch the edit dialog and input your Flash website in the “Value Data” box. With the “ Internet Explorer” entry selected, go over to “ Edit,” click on “ New” and choose “ Key.” Name the new key “ Flash” and hit the “ Refresh” button, so it should appear just below the “Feed Discovery” folder in the tree. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer It only works for ONE Flash website at a time, so there’s no way to add support for more than a single webpage or to manually create a whitelist with Flash links.įirst of all, go over to the Start Screen and launch the Registry Editor by simply writing down “regedit.” Choose “Yes” when asked whether the program should allow you to make changes or not. Note: this step-by-step guide comprises Windows registry modifications, so make sure you create a backup before saving any changes, just to make sure you are on the safe side in case something goes wrong. This is actually an official method released by Microsoft for developers who want to test their Flash websites on Windows RT tablets, so it should really do the job for all users. That’s why we decided to create a quick guide to explain a different way to enable Flash websites on your Windows RT device.
It appears, however, that an update released by Microsoft in November has actually patched this whitelist managing option, so the tutorial doesn’t seem to work anymore.
As you probably know by know if you’re a Windows RT tablet owner, Microsoft’s new operating doesn’t allow users to load Flash websites, unless they’re placed on a whitelist created and managed by the Redmond-based technology company.Ī short guide launched approximately one month ago allowed users to manually edit this whitelist and add as many Flash websites as they want in order to load them in the Metro version of Internet Explorer on both Windows 8 and Windows RT.