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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Saurabh Shintre, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NORTONLIFELOCK INC., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
Virtual ad blocking on a computing device. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, at the virtual machine, an indication that the computing device is requesting delivery of a web page, downloading, at the virtual machine, the web page, rendering, at the virtual machine, a first version of the web page, identifying, at the virtual machine, a presence of at least one advertisement element on the rendered first version of the web page, removing, at the virtual machine, the presence of the at least one advertisement element on the rendered first version of the web page, rendering, at the virtual machine, a second version of the web page that does not include the presence of the at least one advertisement element, and sending the second version of the web page that does not include the presence of the at least one advertisement element to the computing device.