Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[heysoundude]

I'm guessing that @heysoundude is turning on their vpn when they leave their house mainly for general ad blocking when they are not at home as well as security if they connect to a public hotspot. The blocking of YouTube ads is just icing on the cake.

Public wifi, provider’s data network (and roaming partners) - Bullseye!
Correct, this is how I roll. Don’t you?


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[AntonK]

YT Ad blocking topic...after enabling the function in Diversion, what's the learning required? Been using YT (not signed in as a user) for last 4-5 hours, Ads still appearing after each or second music video? Technical setup RT-AX88U on 384.18 alpha 1, Diversion 4.1.12, Skynet, Unbound etc.
| Tried closing & opening Firefox browser, which as per 'Security & Privacy' setting would flush cache didn't help. After I rebooted my desktop, now the YT Ads slowly being blocked. Within an hour of playing music videos, none. This function is really cool!! Thks, yippee...

I wonder why a reboot of the PC would have any effect? Any ideas?

 

[Asad Ali]

I wonder why a reboot of the PC would have any effect? Any ideas?

It probably cleared the local DNS cache.

 

[AntonK]

It probably cleared the local DNS cache.

Thanks.

 

[PC Pilot]

Hi I am a relative novice to user script addons and up until now I had only enabled a number of custom addons thanks to the use of an automated solution using a "script bootloader" which I have been using successfully on an AX88U running Merlin 384.17 for several months (see here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/w...with-asuswrt-merlin-384-12.57270/#post-500681 for brief details and GitHub link).

As my experience with this addon solution has thus far been good it made me keen to explore other advanced features and hence I discovered the highly regarded Diversion (& also Skynet). However, as the above Script Bootloader has already installed some of the pre-requisite items (Entware is a particular example) and as I wish to avoid any installation conflict which may in the process disable the function of either my existing addons or Diversion (or indeed both!) as an unintended consequence.

I would therefore very much appreciate some expert guidance from users familiar with the Diversion install process in respect of any effect it may have on my existing installs/install file structure and how best to achieve a trouble free installation which integrates both aspects such that they run concurrently without either disrupting the function of the other as a result of invoking the automated install command.

Many thanks to all in advance for any help offered and to thelonelycoder for the huge commitment involved to develop such a highly regarded network level Ad Blocking solution !!

Regards,

PC Pilot

 

[underdose]

After enabling YouTube ads blocking feature, my system log is filled with this message:

May 14 17:21:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14124 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:22:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14134 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:23:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14144 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:24:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14154 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:25:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14184 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:26:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14195 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div

And here's is the Diversion overview:

Is that because "Default router message log level" is set to "Info" on my side?

 

[Asad Ali]

Thanks.

Also, remember the script by design will only work on reused Googlevideo subdomains, if you play a video hosted on a new Googlevideo subdomain it'll still play ad but the new subdomain will be added in the YouTube list and it'll block the ad on next use of that same subdomain but since there are thousands of GoogleVideo subdomains we do see ads every now and then.

That's a drawback of no Regex support in official Dnsmasq otherwise it's just one line of code to catch every googlevideo domain in the wild.

 

[dave14305]

After enabling YouTube ads blocking feature, my system log is filled with this message:

May 14 17:21:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14124 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:22:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14134 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:23:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14144 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:24:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14154 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:25:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14184 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div
May 14 17:26:00 crond[764]: USER myusername pid 14195 cmd sh /opt/share/diversion/file/yt-blocking.div

And here's is the Diversion overview:

Is that because "Default router message log level" is set to "Info" on my side?

It's because John's fork logs every cron execution.

 

[New2This]

Everything here seems to be working great.....

 

[dave14305]

After enabling YouTube ads blocking feature, my system log is filled with this message:

You can also experiment with increasing the loglevel to 9 (like merlin and see if it helps).

nvram set cron_loglevel=9
nvram commit
service restart_crond

If it breaks, set it back to 8.

See [Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374.43 LTS releases (V43E6)

 

[Joshuajackson]

Is there any way to get Diversion working while having a different DNS such as 9.9.9.9? I dont want my providers DNS if i change it i start to see ads again.

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[dave14305]

Is there any way to get Diversion working while having a different DNS such as 9.9.9.9? I dont want my providers DNS if i change it i start to see ads again.

You should be putting 9.9.9.9 under the WAN DNS settings, not the LAN DHCP DNS settings (those should be empty), then Diversion will work fine with any upstream DNS provider.

 

[Asad Ali]

Is there any way to get Diversion working while having a different DNS such as 9.9.9.9? I dont want my providers DNS if i change it i start to see ads again.

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https://diversion.ch/faq-reader/how-to-use-an-upstream-dns-server-like-8-8-8-8-from-google.html

Just change 8.8.8.8 to 9.9.9.9

 

[Joshuajackson]

https://diversion.ch/faq-reader/how-to-use-an-upstream-dns-server-like-8-8-8-8-from-google.html

Just change 8.8.8.8 to 9.9.9.9

I did the same steps just with 9.9.9.9 and nothing.

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[Asad Ali]

I did the same steps just with 9.9.9.9 and nothing.

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What nothing?

 

[L&LD]

Hi I am a relative novice to user script addons and up until now I had only enabled a number of custom addons thanks to the use of an automated solution using a "script bootloader" which I have been using successfully on an AX88U running Merlin 384.17 for several months (see here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/w...with-asuswrt-merlin-384-12.57270/#post-500681 for brief details and GitHub link).

As my experience with this addon solution has thus far been good it made me keen to explore other advanced features and hence I discovered the highly regarded Diversion (& also Skynet). However, as the above Script Bootloader has already installed some of the pre-requisite items (Entware is a particular example) and as I wish to avoid any installation conflict which may in the process disable the function of either my existing addons or Diversion (or indeed both!) as an unintended consequence.

I would therefore very much appreciate some expert guidance from users familiar with the Diversion install process in respect of any effect it may have on my existing installs/install file structure and how best to achieve a trouble free installation which integrates both aspects such that they run concurrently without either disrupting the function of the other as a result of invoking the automated install command.

Many thanks to all in advance for any help offered and to thelonelycoder for the huge commitment involved to develop such a highly regarded network level Ad Blocking solution !!

Regards,

PC Pilot

There is no way anyone is bored enough to examine what the many ramifications will be from using this 'script bootloader' today when RMerlin firmware is officially using amtm.

Take a backup of your current configuration, including the JFFS partition, and/or better yet, use a new USB drive too.

Format the JFFS partition on the next reboot and make sure you hit 'Apply' at the bottom of that page. Reboot the router 3 times in the next 15 minutes or so (waiting 5 to 10 minutes before the next reboot).

After doing the above, amtm will already be installed on the router. Use amtm to properly format the USB drive as Ext4, with journalling. Install the DC (Disk Checker) script. Install a swap file (2GB is my suggestion). Install Diversion which will properly install Entware too.

From here, you should do a new/clean install of every script you require.

The above is the best way today to ensure you're not causing issues for yourself and your router/network needlessly. Feel free to look at the link in my signature below for further info.

HTH.

 

[Joshuajackson]

What nothing?

It doesnt block ads

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[Asad Ali]

It doesnt block ads

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It's not supposed to block ads, it's just a way to change your WAN DNS.

Make sure your LAN DNS fields are empty.
Also on LAN->DNSFilter page enable global filtering mode and set it to Router.

 

[Joshuajackson]

It's not supposed to block ads, it's just a way to change your WAN DNS.

Make sure your LAN DNS fields are empty.
Also on LAN->DNSFilter page enable global filtering mode and set it to Router.

Bro I'm saying is that before Diversion was blocking ads with my providers DNS. Now when I changed the DNS it does not block ads anymore. Do you get me now????

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[dave14305]

Bro I'm saying is that before Diversion was blocking ads with my providers DNS. Now when I changed the DNS it does not block ads anymore. Do you get me now????

Then you've got something in the wrong place. Post screenshots of your WAN DNS settings, LAN DHCP Server DNS settings and LAN DNSFilter settings.