Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[thelonelycoder]

Don't want to distract from the YouTube block discussion, but is anyone else seeing a dramatic reduction in RAM usage on their router with the latest versions of Diversion? I run Diversion, Skynet and UiDivStats and was used to seeing my RAM usage hover around 90-95%. Now its stays around 63-69%. My first thought was, "Why aren't you using all my RAM? What's wrong?" Needless to say, everything is working fine. I do run native IPv6, so maybe it's because that's no longer doubling up?

The blocked domains are doubled with IPv6 enabled, nothings changed there. It's just the domain count that I changed.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I've pushed a Diversion update, no version change

- Reworked the experimental YouTube video ads blocking feature in b.
- Replaced YouTube option Rerun with Reset, to start over. Use this if you encounter problems.
- Changed YouTube domain update timer, it is now a one to fifteen minute interval, still flexibly adapting automatically.
- Added YouTube video IP address check, with option to not use IPv6 for those that have it enabled (reset required to see).
- Leftover YouTube IPv6 entries are auto-removed from yt_blacklist.
- Fixed coding error for the wildcard blacklist.

Use u to update.

 

[Joshuajackson]

Good to hear. I'm still tweaking some parameters as my iPads and browsers occasionally do.
This is still a work in progress. I silently pushed an update hours ago to fix that damn double count when IPv6 is enabled.
But for further tweaks I'll let you all know when I do.

Thanks for your hard work, though just a thought are you able to get it like nextdns does like adding more blocking lists from others and all the features it has? That's mainly why I have used nextdns because it's quite customizable. Just a thought you don't have to do it.

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[thelonelycoder]

And thanks to all the experimental YouTube testers out there. I appreciate your inputs to get this exciting feature developed, tested and out of beta.

 

[tomsk]

And thanks to all the experimental YouTube testers out there. I appreciate your inputs to get this exciting feature developed, tested and out of beta.

Thanks Peppa Pig

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks for your hard work, though just a thought are you able to get it like nextdns does like adding more blocking lists from others and all the features it has? That's mainly why I have used nextdns because it's quite customizable. Just a thought you don't have to do it.

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The blocking list is infinitely configurable, if you take the time to look at the features.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks Peppa Pig

That idea came out of the blue with post #6000 in this thread. I've been feverishly at it since then.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks Peppa Pig

Now ad free!

 

[Joshuajackson]

The blocking list is infinitely configurable, if you take the time to look at the features.

Really, wow I must be blind. I'll look for it.

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[Joshuajackson]

The blocking list is infinitely configurable, if you take the time to look at the features.

Okay found it I take that back what I said, good work

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[--Manu--]

@thelonelycoder

Since I am from Germany I know what time it is in Switzerland ;-)

Don't "break" yourself when coding. You fixed the IPv6 double count before and you don't owe anyone anything here.

Even if it took 3 months ... it would take so long.

But please don't get me wrong ;-)

 

[thelonelycoder]

@thelonelycoder

Since I am from Germany I know what time it is in Switzerland ;-)

Don't "break" yourself when coding. You fixed the IPv6 double count before and you don't owe anyone anything here.

Even if it took 3 months ... it would take so long.

But please don't get me wrong ;-)

Don‘t tell me how many hours I can waste on my hobby

 

[dave14305]

Don‘t tell me how many hours I can waste on my hobby

A good night of coding beats a good night of sleep!

 

[Asad Ali]

A good night of coding beats a good night of sleep!

Let's rephrase "A good night of *bug-free* coding beats a good night of sleep!"

Otherwise, it beats the sh** out of us! (developers) [emoji1787][emoji1787]

 

[heslo]

Well I've enabled YT blocking, seems to be learning and blocking ads so far. Very interesting development, thank you for all your hard work!

 

[AntonK]

Hi,

Is there some way to know/test/confirm whether Diversion YouTube ad blocking is working on your system, or not? I've got it enabled, but I'm still seeing a significant though un-quantifiable number of ads on YouTube. I see nothing in the firmware GUI - Addons - Diversion Stats that suggests YouTube ads are being blocked.

Thanks,
Anton

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Had to reinstall Diversion from scratch to get it all working again. Also YT ad-blocking is working now:
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i got over 269 domains collected.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Hi,

Is there some way to know/test/confirm whether Diversion YouTube ad blocking is working on your system, or not? I've got it enabled, but I'm still seeing a significant though un-quantifiable number of ads on YouTube. I see nothing in the firmware GUI - Addons - Diversion Stats that suggests YouTube ads are being blocked.

Thanks,
Anton

you just have to believe....

 

[Stephen Harrington]

@thelonelycoder @Jack Yaz et al

Have been experimenting with the YT blocking, had to do your reset as below to get it all working.

In d select "7. Reset Diversion ads counter or logs" and then reset Dnsmasq log files.
Browse some YT videos and then run b,8,2 again. I'm crossing fingers.

Don't know if it is coincidence but now uiDivStats is showing some pretty impressive ad-blocking numbers!

Anyone else seeing something like this?

Running a "Generate Diversion Statistics now" in at command line for uiDivStats didn't fix it, just made different spurious results ...

Not really sure if this is a Diversion issue or a uiDivStats issue?

Anyway the YT ad-blocking seems to be working well, thanks!

 

[heslo]

i got over 269 domains collected.

Mine seems stuck on 13. I'd be interested to see how you got over 200