1. A method for filtering content received from a data network comprising: transmitting, by a browser executing on a computer, a request identifying a category of filtering parameters; receiving a first plurality of categorized filtering parameters from a database in response to the request; generating an additional categorized filtering parameter; adding the additional categorized filtering parameter to the first plurality of categorized filtering parameters to generate a second plurality of categorized filtering parameters comprising the first plurality of categorized filtering parameters and the additional categorized filtering parameter; receiving content comprising a uniform resource locator associated with additional content; filtering the content received using the second plurality of categorized filtering parameters, wherein filtering the content received comprises comparing the uniform resource locator to the second plurality of categorized filtering parameters; and if a match is detected between the uniform resource locator and the second plurality of categorized filtering paramaters: blocking, by an ad blocking plug-in executing on the computer, a display of the additional content.