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Silent Block for Online Ads not applying across all search engines

  • October 7, 2025
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Jacks24
Netskope Partner

Hi everyone,

I set the “Online Ads” category to Silent Block in our policy. It works fine on Google Search (ads are blocked silently), but when we try other search engines like Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo Search, or Yandex, the ads are still visible.

Has anyone else run into this? Is this expected behavior, or did we miss a setting to make it apply across different search engines?

Appreciate any insights!

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ejang
Netskope Employee
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  • Netskope Employee
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  • October 12, 2025

It should work regardless of the search engine, so this is not expected behavior.

Could you please share more details about the specific cases where the ads are not being blocked?