diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a9d4d1d..75fb004 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,14 @@ options:
 	@echo CC $<
 	@${CC} -c ${CFLAGS} $<
 
-${OBJ}: config.h config.mk
+${OBJ}: config.h config.mk filters_compiled
+
+filters_compiled: filters
+	sed -e '/^$$/d' -e 's|\\|\\\\|g' -e 's|$$|",|' -e 's|^|"|' < filters > $@
+
+filters:
+	@echo creating $@ from filters.def
+	@cp filters.def $@
 
 config.h:
 	@echo creating $@ from config.def.h
@@ -30,7 +37,7 @@ surf: ${OBJ}
 
 clean:
 	@echo cleaning
-	@rm -f surf ${OBJ} surf-${VERSION}.tar.gz
+	@rm -f surf ${OBJ} surf-${VERSION}.tar.gz filters_compiled
 
 dist: clean
 	@echo creating dist tarball
diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index 80a0feb..3cc5131 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ static char *cafile         = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt";
 static char *strictssl      = FALSE; /* Refuse untrusted SSL connections */
 static time_t sessiontime   = 3600;
 
+/* Regular expressions to match URLs that should not be loaded */
+char *filter_patterns[] = {
+#include "filters_compiled"
+};
+/* Define this for verbose filtering */
+// #define FILTER_VERBOSE
+
 /* Webkit default features */
 static Bool enablescrollbars = TRUE;
 static Bool enablespatialbrowsing = TRUE;
diff --git a/filters.def b/filters.def
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77158de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/filters.def
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+^eviladvertisments\.com$
+/favicon\.ico$
diff --git a/surf.c b/surf.c
index 7c78b4a..8d24197 100644
--- a/surf.c
+++ b/surf.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <webkit/webkit.h>
 #include <glib/gstdio.h>
 #include <JavaScriptCore/JavaScript.h>
+#include <regex.h>
 #include <sys/file.h>
 #include <libgen.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "arg.h"
 
 char *argv0;
+regex_t *filter_expressions;
 
 #define LENGTH(x)               (sizeof x / sizeof x[0])
 #define CLEANMASK(mask)         (mask & (MODKEY|GDK_SHIFT_MASK))
@@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ static void destroyclient(Client *c);
 static void destroywin(GtkWidget* w, Client *c);
 static void die(const char *errstr, ...);
 static void eval(Client *c, const Arg *arg);
+static bool filter_init(void);
+static bool filter_request(const gchar *uri);
 static void find(Client *c, const Arg *arg);
 static void fullscreen(Client *c, const Arg *arg);
 static void geopolicyrequested(WebKitWebView *v, WebKitWebFrame *f,
@@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ beforerequest(WebKitWebView *w, WebKitWebFrame *f, WebKitWebResource *r,
 		gpointer d) {
 	const gchar *uri = webkit_network_request_get_uri(req);
 
-	if(g_str_has_suffix(uri, "/favicon.ico"))
+	if(filter_request(uri))
 		webkit_network_request_set_uri(req, "about:blank");
 }
 
@@ -473,6 +477,49 @@ die(const char *errstr, ...) {
 	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }
 
+static bool
+filter_init(void) {
+	bool errors = false;
+	char *errorbuf;
+
+	errorbuf = malloc(sizeof(char) * BUFSIZ);
+	filter_expressions = malloc(sizeof(regex_t) * LENGTH(filter_patterns));
+
+	for (off_t idx = 0; idx < LENGTH(filter_patterns); idx++) {
+		char *pat = filter_patterns[idx];
+		int err = regcomp(&filter_expressions[idx], pat,
+				            REG_EXTENDED | REG_ICASE | REG_NOSUB);
+		if (err != 0) {
+			/* regerror always ends messages with 0x00 */
+			(void) regerror(err, &filter_expressions[idx], errorbuf, BUFSIZ);
+			fprintf(stderr, "Failed to compile \"%s\": %s\n", pat, errorbuf);
+			errors = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	free(errorbuf);
+	return !errors;
+}
+
+static bool
+filter_request(const gchar *uri) {
+	if (!strcmp(uri, "about:blank"))
+		return false;
+	for (off_t idx = 0; idx < LENGTH(filter_patterns); idx++) {
+		if (regexec(&filter_expressions[idx], uri, 0, NULL, 0) == REG_NOMATCH) {
+			continue;
+		}
+#ifdef FILTER_VERBOSE
+		fprintf(stderr, "filtering \"%s\"\n", uri);
+#endif
+		return true;
+	}
+#ifdef FILTER_VERBOSE
+	fprintf(stderr, "not filtering \"%s\"\n", uri);
+#endif
+	return false;
+}
+
 static void
 find(Client *c, const Arg *arg) {
 	const char *s;
@@ -1152,6 +1199,10 @@ setup(void) {
 		g_free(new_proxy);
 		usingproxy = 1;
 	}
+
+	if (!filter_init()) {
+		die("Failed to compile one or more filter expressions\n");
+	}
 }
 
 static void