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  1. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    I use dnsmasq's domain blocking feature to block all subdomains. PGL created a simple download in correct format many years ago, and I still use it! https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/news.php#dnsmasq-linksys-tomato-local-blocking-and-you
  2. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    A broken image symbol is not what is expected, but what OS/browser is that? Majority of ads now seem to be served over https connections, which might explain that, but yes the original idea of a scale 1x1 gif was to allow the browser to collapse the white space intended fo rads. I still have...
  3. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    Yes, but I think the non-secure sites are working from your message above, if no image file extension detected you get a null text response by default. Many many years ago a .gif was the default, but we found Internet Explorer, for example gave error messages because it sometimes tried to...
  4. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    Re 1: You only get an image if you clearly ask for one ie. http://doubleclick.net/anything.gif Many ads now served by https - for which you need to do additional steps to set up the certs on the router, and also import the cert into your browser.
  5. mstombs

    merlin toolchain issue on Mac

    Use a VM?
  6. mstombs

    Adblocking on Asus Merlin using Pixelserv?

    Pixelserv doesn't block anything itself, it just provides a diversion target that helps to tidy up web pages broken by other things, and hopefully handshake quickly to avoid retries and timeouts. The diversion is usually done by dns poisoning, using a script to configure the router dnsmasq. I...
  7. mstombs

    ASUS RT-N16 support?

    You can safely go with John's fork based on an older version of Asuswrt-merlin but actively maintained with back-ported security fixes and extras, wireless drivers should work better too! http://www.snbforums.com/threads/fork-update-for-374-43-available-v19e3-v20b7.18914/
  8. mstombs

    A peek under the hood

    Great - more Tomato like features, but I use Asuswrt Merlin for the raw speed available using hardware acceleration, so no QOS - I need a faster CPU router than N66! Will you have editable category labels?
  9. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    You can get the stats into syslog without quiting pixelserv by signalling it with sigusr1, in my case admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# killall -USR1 pixelserv-tls Results in addition to log (and I store logs on another machine hard disk using remote syslog function!) Oct 1 09:52:31...
  10. mstombs

    Help With Custom Scripts

    I recommend winscp, then you can use an editor such as notepad++ to create files with the required unix style line endings. Its a bit out of date, but instructions for using winscp with dd-wrt were included here http://www.howtogeek.com/51477/how-to-remove-advertisements-with-pixelserv-on-dd-wrt/
  11. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    The original (buggy, much fewer features) C pixelserv version had a dynamic binary only 4kB big that could be uuencoded into nvram. I recall upx helped keep the binary down to 20kB which was useful for some jffs users. With usb disks I agree no benefit, and probably uses more ram/ ram...
  12. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    By default pixelserv listens on ports 80 and 443, but you can change this from the call parameters BUT you would also need iptables diverts because browsers using dns based blocklist will direct requests to these common ports for http and https. I add alternate http ports for testing/ one...
  13. mstombs

    [alpha] Asuswrt-Merlin 380.62 preview builds

    Surprise for me is that Asus have released new GPL for an old mips AC66U first in the 380.4005 release, I wonder if that's just a bug fix on their behalf in the 380 range?
  14. mstombs

    [alpha] Asuswrt-Merlin 380.62 preview builds

    We are on BST in the UK at the moment which is GMT +1, Internet standards prefer to use UTC which is basically the same as GMT. 37% of UK electorate want to be 50 years behind!
  15. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    I didn't write the average calc - but did review it - I thought it was correct way to maintain average in integer calcs, the divisor is the count of replies? Look forward to seeing a replacement to the forked reply processes - real webservers have a pool of workers to share the replies. The...
  16. mstombs

    Is this a bug on Asus firmware? WAN disconnections

    I have a lease and the rule in 380.59 and before, maybe it was broken in subsequent update? My main router is now a couple of revs behind head, the T2 thing gives me a good reason to upgrade to the next release (and I am first to download 380.62 alpha2 for the N66U) , thanks.
  17. mstombs

    Is this a bug on Asus firmware? WAN disconnections

    I don't understand the patch, the accept rule is already there on 380.59 N66U, its just an OR with 0.0.0.0? ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-N66U 380.59-0 Tue May 10 15:44:44 UTC 2016 admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# iptables -nvL Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in...
  18. mstombs

    2,4 and 5GHz networking with same SSID

    2.4GHz has larger range than 5GHz, so you will find mobile devices always connect to it first when they come into range, I have found different devices behave differently and have different roaming aggressiveness options. My Android phone won't even roam properly between same SSID on same band...
  19. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    A timeout is needed because sometime browser processes never close the connection, we started with 2 seconds, then upped to 10 seconds as default, and a few more connections cleanly closed, but not all - it just makes sure you do not lots of stuck processes hanging around. Could well be client...
  20. mstombs

    pixelserv pixelserv - A Better One-pixel Webserver for Adblock

    What router and Merlin version? Perhaps I don't see the problem on my N66 (380.59) because UTC+1 is correct for the UK? Aug 28 20:04:49 miniupnpd[24133]: upnp_event_recv: recv(): Connection reset by peer Aug 28 20:16:08 pixelserv[14718]: ads2.contentabc.com _.contentabc.com missing Aug 28...
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