Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[thelonelycoder]

This isn’t an issue for most people because dnsmasq/Diversion won’t receive these queries, unless Tools / Other Settings “Wan: Use local caching DNS server as system resolver (default: No)” is set to Yes. Is this true for you @Asad Ali ?

Exactly the reason. But then:

I know it'll only show when we have the local caching enabled and that's necessary for my use case due to some home baked scripts I use, also it's needed for LAN name resolution.

I also have "Wan: Use local caching DNS server as system resolver (default: No)" set to Yes for my local web server to resolve, like diversion.test which you'll find code in both amtm and Diversion so I can be lazy with my testing.

As for now, I'll add domain exclusion to the to do list, otherwise that Diversion WebUI will never see the light of day

 

[Diamond67]

Just enabled the YouTube video ads blocking. But my System Log - General Log keeps showing these messages all the time (every minute sharp):

May 17 06:00:00 Diversion: no YouTube temp file found, run b,8,2 in Diversion

I have reset YouTube settings (start over) (b,8,2), but nothing happens.

And I see ads of course.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Just enabled the YouTube video ads blocking. But my System Log - General Log keeps showing these messages all the time (every minute sharp):

May 17 06:00:00 Diversion: no YouTube temp file found, run b,8,2 in Diversion

I have reset YouTube settings (start over) (b,8,2), but nothing happens.

And I see ads of course.

can you confirm you truly see ads?

 

[Diamond67]

can you confirm you truly see ads?

Yes. And I already disabled YouTube ad blocking anyway.

And no. I do not watch Peppa Pig videos. Too kinky for me.

 

[bluepoint]

Just enabled the YouTube video ads blocking. But my System Log - General Log keeps showing these messages all the time (every minute sharp):

May 17 06:00:00 Diversion: no YouTube temp file found, run b,8,2 in Diversion

I have reset YouTube settings (start over) (b,8,2), but nothing happens.

And I see ads of course.

Run forced update(UU).

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Yes. And I already disabled YouTube ad blocking anyway.

And no. I do not watch Peppa Pig videos. Too kinky for me.

Too racy for you ? I am sorry, I meant to link you to more age appropriate stuff.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Just enabled the YouTube video ads blocking. But my System Log - General Log keeps showing these messages all the time (every minute sharp):

May 17 06:00:00 Diversion: no YouTube temp file found, run b,8,2 in Diversion

I have reset YouTube settings (start over) (b,8,2), but nothing happens.

And I see ads of course.

Fixed, sorry for the stupid mistake.

I've pushed a Diversion update, no version change

- FIXED: Missing dnsmasq.log file path in command when no last YT count was found.

Use u to update

 

[Diamond67]

Fixed, sorry for the stupid mistake.

I've pushed a Diversion update, no version change

- FIXED: Missing dnsmasq.log file path in command when no last YT count was found.

Yeah. There was a red yt in the el edit lists line as well, if I remember right.

I tried uu several times earlier. But after updating Diversion to the latest version (with the fix) there seems to be a yt count going on now:

  31 yt

and no more "no YouTube temp file found" lines in the general log.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Yeah. There was a red yt in the el edit lists line as well, if I remember right.

I tried uu several times earlier. But after updating Diversion to the latest version (with the fix) there seems to be a yt count going on now:

  31 yt

and no more "no YouTube temp file found" lines in the general log.

That "no YouTube temp file found" only happened for a new setup or a reset of the YT experimental feature.

 

[dugaduga]

I noticed recently that you added the ability to parse domain only lists. Thank you for adding this functionality, it is indispensable and really makes diversion even all the more better than it was before. Great Job, keep up the good work!

 

[thelonelycoder]

I noticed recently that you added the ability to parse domain only lists. Thank you for adding this functionality, it is indispensable and really makes diversion even all the more better than it was before. Great Job, keep up the good work!

I did, grudgingly. In hindsight that feature should have come earlier to Diversion.

 

[Treadler]

I noticed recently that you added the ability to parse domain only lists. Thank you for adding this functionality, it is indispensable and really makes diversion even all the more better than it was before. Great Job, keep up the good work!

Ok, so I was obviously asleep when this happened......
Does this mean the like of ‘EasyList’ lists are now usable?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Ok, so I was obviously asleep when this happened......
Does this mean the like of ‘EasyList’ lists are now usable?

any list that is a list of domains. will work.

 

[CriticJay]

Ok, so I was obviously asleep when this happened......
Does this mean the like of ‘EasyList’ lists are now usable?

No, not EasyList. EasyList is in "ABP format"; which is more than just a list of domains.

 

[Treadler]

No, not EasyList. EasyList is in "ABP format"; which is more than just a list of domains.

Thank you.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Thank you.

their are plenty of list out there where the domains from those AB list have been extracted, you are welcome to search around for them. i don't know how effective they are but they should work for your case.

 

[HairyA00]

Ok, so I was obviously asleep when this happened......
Does this mean the like of ‘EasyList’ lists are now usable?

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt

Good source of blocklists: https://firebog.net/

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

for a more robust solution you could always download them and upload them to a source where you can add them as a custom list.
downloading them straight from the source

for url in https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt; do

curl -s $url | sed 's/^||//' | cut -d'^' -f-1 > easylist

done

there is a little more work to it then that as some of the AB list have additional stuff that needs to be removed.

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt

Good source of blocklists: https://firebog.net/

sticking with this solution mentioned by @HairyA00
is definitely the best approach unless you are familiar with sed awk enough to come up with that special recipe.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Ok, so I was obviously asleep when this happened......
Does this mean the like of ‘EasyList’ lists are now usable?

No, but there are plenty of readily available and compatible lists to use at https://filterlists.com/
In the Software column, click on the filter symbol and tick Diversion and click OK.
Then add it to Diversion in b, 1, 2.
No need to parse an incompatible Adblock Plus or any other incompatible filter list just to get the few actual domains from it.

 

[CriticJay]

- FIXED: Stats function count mismatch when IP addresses are similar (eg 192.168.50.2 and 192.168.50.20), give thanks to @dave14305 for his bug hunting skills.

Hello Mr. Coder Sir,

Can you please double-check if the fix handled this issue? I continued to have this issue in my stats after the update (even after doing a full stats/log reset in both Diversion and the Jack Yaz UI script).
I eventually resolved it by changing my printer's IP address from 192.168.0.200 to 192.168.0.123-something

My pixelserv IP is 192.168.0.2