How-to Block Ads in Konqueror

Starting from version 3.5, Konqueror feature an ad blocker mechanism based on regular expressions. Here is a little how-to to help you install an efficient filter set.

Konqueror AdBlocks filter configuration panel

  1. Dowload the latest Filterset.G regexp set. The file which contain all rules is located at http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/ under the name YYYY-MM-DD.txt.
  2. Go to Settings > Configure Konqueror... menu.
  3. Then go to AdBlock Filters panel (the one on the screenshot).
  4. Check both Enable filters and Hide filtered images options.
  5. Use the Import... button to load the “Filterset.G” file you previoulsy downloaded
  6. Enjoy ad-free web sites !

By the way, I hope to see the feature suggested by Andreas Frische to get some attention by the Konqueror community: it would be nice to have an integrated auto-updater of filter set in Konqueror (and make this how-to deprecated).

7 Responses to “How-to Block Ads in Konqueror”


  • That’s fantastically simple, I was expecting a long and tedious process, almost put in an /etc/hosts blocklist, so thanks :)

  • Thanks for this tip, using konqueror without blocking ads was becoming too much like watching television!
    BTW, your site renders funny in konqueror (3.5.7) for me.

  • BTW, your site renders funny in konqueror (3.5.7) for me.

    Let me guess: you have a double vertical scrollbar…

    I’m using konqueror 3.5.6 and I have the same problem. It’s clearly related to konqueror because other browser don’t have this issue and the CSS code is clean.

  • Thank you very very much :D

    I was searching it on the web, but i didn’t find anything!!

    Thank you ;)

  • Andreas Frische

    in the mean time i set up a local name server + cron job; works good ;)

    see http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

  • How do i change the blocking image? it is an ugly picture which enlarged looks so much ugly.

  • Very usefull, thank You very much.

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