Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content?

First time accepted submitter willoughby writes "Many routers today have the capability to block web content. And you all know about browser addons like noscript & adblock. But where is the 'proper' place for such content blocking? Is it best to have the router only route packets & do the content blocking on each machine? If using the content blocking feature in the router, will performance degrade if the list of blocked content grows large? Where is the best place to filter/block web content?"

Re:Nice Try China!

[just_a_monkey]

I am continually surprised that it is still legal to block ads, and that there is no visible movement to make blocking illegal. Not even any pervasive "The websites must be able to make money on what they do!", "Blocking ads is like stealing from the websites!" or "You wouldn't watch a movie/TV-show without watching the commercials" campaigns.

Google and their customers must not have as good lobbyists as Hollywood.

Re:Nice Try China!

[TheRealMindChild]

The browser blocks its own popups, but sites get around this by having java or flash or whatever do the popup.