Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[KGB7]

YouTube ads have nothing to do with router firmware and no router (DNS) based ad blocker can block YouTube video ads. If you weren't seeing them before then you must just be lucky.

I did a fresh install of the firmware, of the Diversion, reformatted the thumb drive and im still seeing transparent ads on top of the YouTube videos, that pop up several times during many videos that I have never seen before. image bellow.
Im also seeing far more ads on many websites as well. I hate to reinstall everything from scratch again, but if there is no simple solution then ill start from beginning.

Everything was working perfectly a week ago. arghh.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Your RT-DG dnsmasq-script script may not work but Diversion works seamless with Dual WAN, I tested it with fail over.
Your messages disappear from the System Log because Diversion directs Dnsmasq messages to the dnsmasq.log, when logging is enabled (l).

I concur it works marvelously with dual wan setup.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

YouTube ads have nothing to do with router firmware and no router (DNS) based ad blocker can block YouTube video ads. If you weren't seeing them before then you must just be lucky.

Yea from what i understand the only way these days to block you-tube ads is with special browser extensions or just block video play all together. there is no special pill or remedy to fix this behavior because you-tube sends its videos through the same feeds the ads come in on.

 

[KGB7]

Ive reinstalled 384.17 firmware 3 times today, each time re-downloading firmware from Merlins website.
Hard reset each time.
Even used a rescue mode.
Formated 2 USB thumb drives with ext2 and ext3.
Did a fresh install of Diversion +6 times.
Multiple formats of JFF partition.

Still getting ads that I did not see a week ago.

Going back to 384.16 firmware tomorrow.

At this time, im guessing there is an issue with .17 firmware, because I didn't have these issues with ads with .16 firmware.
Will test tomorrow with .16 firmware and report back.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Ive reinstalled 384.17 firmware 3 times today, each time re-downloading firmware from Merlins website.
Hard reset each time.
Even used a rescue mode.
Formated 2 USB thumb drives with ext2 and ext3.
Did a fresh install of Diversion +6 times.
Multiple formats of JFF partition.

Still getting ads that I did not see a week ago.

Going back to 384.16 firmware tomorrow.

At this time, im guessing there is an issue with .17 firmware, because I didn't have these issues with ads with .16 firmware.
Will test tomorrow with .16 firmware and report back.

Did you ever test with the f option in Diversion to see what Dnsmasq says?
Your device might use its own "domain to IP resolution" and not go through the routers Dnsmasq.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Would it be possible make edit whitelist/blacklist more user friendly, please? I don't know how many people are going to "edit *list" just to see it's content, but I bet there are more people open it to add a domain to it.

Would be awesome if options were presented first after entering "Edit *list" section. And option to process the list was presented after adding a domain without need of going back into list's options.

Thank you.

You know there's a pagination setting, right?
For the next Diversion update I have added the option to paginate at 5 lines, this makes the presented list of entries shorter.

And option to process the list was presented after adding a domain without need of going back into list's options.

After the domain is added, instead of returning to "2. Show whitelist options" when the selection is " [1-2 e=Exit]", you can simply enter e to exit, twice and it will ask to process the changes in the list.

I believe this will make it more user friendly. I'm not going to change the whole logic as you proposed as this would affect A LOT of code.
Also, your avatar is as of yet unchanged.

 

[dave14305]

Still getting ads that I did not see a week ago.

Sometimes the websites themselves change how they deliver ads. Or the public blocking lists change.

What you’re doing isn’t working so gather some facts from the logs.

 

[JaimeZX]

Also, if Diversion was down for some amount of time, (at least Firefox) will cache some DNS information, so even when Diversion goes back up if FF has that data for ad servers you'll keep seeing them. Look into flushing the browser DNS caches and that may help. (Source: I've had this happen to me.)

 

[CriticJay]

Also, if Diversion was down for some amount of time, (at least Firefox) will cache some DNS information, so even when Diversion goes back up if FF has that data for ad servers you'll keep seeing them. Look into flushing the browser DNS caches and that may help. (Source: I've had this happen to me.)

The browser is caching or the client/computer OS is caching? I suppose both could be caching DNS...

But Windows definitely, does quite a bit of DNS caching...

 

[thelonelycoder]

Diversion 4.1.12 is now available

What's new in Diversion 4.1.12
- NEW: Additional theme solarized to choose from. Thanks @Stuart MacDonald for the code.
- CHANGED: Enhanced NTP ready check.
- CHANGED: Wording in Diversion update notification email for available amtm third-party scripts.
- CHANGED: Added option to paginate at 5 lines in el.

Note: If you use amtm, update it now for compatibility, the order does not matter.

How to update
Use u to update to this latest version.

 

[thelonelycoder]

The above Diversion update might not include the long awaited WebUI code, but rest assured its coming.
Coding the new functions into amtm 3.1.7 took much longer but the result is very satisfying to me.

 

[JaimeZX]

I know Firefox does its own.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I've pushed a minor update for Diversion, no version change

This fixes the double count in the stats function when IPv6 is enabled.

A pull request for @Jack Yaz uiDivStats will be made shortly.

Use u to update.

 

[JaimeZX]

Almost sounds like 4.2!

 

[--Manu--]

I've pushed a minor update for Diversion, no version change

This fixes the double count in the stats function when IPv6 is enabled.

A pull request for @Jack Yaz uiDivStats will be made shortly.

Use u to update.

Thanks a lot.

Directly after the update, it double counts the domains (IPv6 on). I had to do a manual block list update to show the correct count (divided by two).

 

[thelonelycoder]

Almost sounds like 4.2!

We’re on the same page.

 

[KGB7]

Did you ever test with the f option in Diversion to see what Dnsmasq says?
Your device might use its own "domain to IP resolution" and not go through the routers Dnsmasq.

Doesn't say much.

May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: query[A] keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net from 192.160.100.13
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: forwarded keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net to 192.168.100.1
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.143.124
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.154
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.168
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.176
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.203
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.208
May 5 01:12:03 dnsmasq[5259]: reply keyvalueservice.fe.apple-dns.net is 17.248.134.211

 

[KGB7]

Also, if Diversion was down for some amount of time, (at least Firefox) will cache some DNS information, so even when Diversion goes back up if FF has that data for ad servers you'll keep seeing them. Look into flushing the browser DNS caches and that may help. (Source: I've had this happen to me.)

Cleared all caches and dns. Flushed everything, using terminal commands.
In the past, this tactic did work, but its not working for some reason at this time.

All websites did require manually entering credentials; emails, banking, medical, etc etc. So I think I cleared everything out.

The ad overlay on top of YouTube video is something I have never seen before. It could be new and just been implemented by Youtube. But last week I did not see the overlay ads on top of videos. I attached image in my earlier post.

Do you see overlay ads in YouTube videos??

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[KGB7]

Sometimes the websites themselves change how they deliver ads. Or the public blocking lists change.

What you’re doing isn’t working so gather some facts from the logs.

Unfortunately, Diversion website has limited information and not user friendly. Even though ive been pocking around Diversion settings, I can figure out a way to look at an extensive log.

 

[KGB7]

Apologies for multiple posts in the row, I dont see an option to multi-quote posts.

I reverted back to firmware 384.16 on Asus ac68u. No improvement at this time.

One more thing that I have left to test, is install Diversion using: curl -Os https://diversion.ch/install && sh install. Because I have been installing Diversion from AMTM and thats when I think the issue has started. Its the only thing that I can rule out at this time.

One last question for tonight. Diversion recommends to format USB thumb drive as ext2. Any reason I should not be using ext3 or ext4? I read up on the differences between the 3, but is there a specific reason when it comes to Diversion it self, why I should use ext2? I think in the past I formatted the thumb drive with ext4, because its newer format.

Im really trying to figure this out, and for the first time in a long time, I am stumped.


Thanks again everyone for the help.