AB-Solution - The Ad Blocking Solution

[M@rco]

- the all new Web UI, pictures unavailable because the screenshot feature on my Windows PC refuses to capture it...

Try GreenShot!

...or, if the WebUI exceeds the height of your screen, a browser addon that's able to capture entire pages, like Awesome Screenshot Plus.

not that we're curious off course

 

[thelonelycoder]

Try GreenShot!

...or, if the WebUI exceeds the height of your screen, a browser addon that's able to capture entire pages, like Awesome Screenshot Plus.

not that we're curious off course

Oh, I have my all-time favorite WinSnap at the ready and even the good old Prt Sc Key on the Keyboard. But alas, my Workhorse refuses to capture this particular screen area

 

[Protik]

Oh, I have my all-time favorite WinSnap at the ready and even the good old Prt Sc Key on the Keyboard. But alas, my Workhorse refuses to capture this particular screen area

Two questions regarding the web UI that I have in mind for a while.

- Is the web UI only for information viewing purpose or Ab-Solution can be modified from web UI as well? Because if Ab-Solution can be modified from the web UI, there needs to an authentication.

- Is the web UI static?

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[thelonelycoder]

Two questions regarding the web UI that I have in mind for a while.

- Is the web UI only for information viewing purpose only or Ab-Solution can be modified from web UI as well? Because if Ab-Solution can be modified from the web UI, there needs to an authentication.

- Is the web UI static?

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I've mentioned it briefly somewhere. The Web UI uses the same credentials as the router Web UI. No need to re-login if you already are.
And what good would such an UI and all my effort be if it's view only?
I'm not doing half baked things

 

[rtn66uftw]

I mainly use putty.

This looks pretty good I will have to check it out.

I'd bet you will say goodbye to PuTTy forever

To each their own. For my taste Xshell looks and behaves more polished.

Fair enough. I like their dual/quad terminal screen. I also don't like Vim so it's really great to be able to edit code using a text editor of my choice (Notepad++)

 

[Twiglets]

That’s a download link for the Facebook App.

Blocking that URL will not prevent the App from getting access to the internet.

On re-reading ... YEP you are right ..... Ooops
Sorry don't have an 'ithing' to test on and misread the original answer. [Must learn to sleep at night for a change !!!]

Have to do it the hard way and log all the IP addresses accessed when using Facebook App, filter & Blacklist IP Addresses.
[Capture via firewall log etc. Filter for IP address of iPhone/iPad in use. Blacklist the Address ranges [Including/Excluding Ports, as needed]. Force ALL DNS queries to be redirected to your own DNS Server/Cache so blacklist can be 'forcibly' applied. ]

or

Just get a proper content filter !!!

 

[Adamm]

Is it possible to block the facebook app from accessing the internet ? I can block access to the website but the app still connects to the internet.

Facebook probably have dozens of domains, you may be better off blocking all their IP Ranges.

The following IP address ranges belong to Facebook:

66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255
69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255
204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255

 

[XIII]

I get this:

checking for device label for
/tmp/mnt/sda1:
Device has no label.

However I performed this:

mkfs.ext2 -L usb /dev/sda1

What did I do wrong?

 

[M@rco]

If

blkid

shows no label for /dev/sda1, try

tune2fs -L  usb /dev/sda1

to assign a label to it.

Run blkid again to check if it worked.

 

[XIII]

I actually used that tune2fs command as well...

Output of blkid: /dev/sda1: LABEL="usb"

So it does seem to have a label, but AB-Solution does not see it?

 

[thelonelycoder]

I get this:

checking for device label for
/tmp/mnt/sda1:
Device has no label.

However I performed this:

mkfs.ext2 -L usb /dev/sda1

What did I do wrong?

Better to give it a distinct label, not the same as the system uses.
For AB4.0 I no longer check this, I built in a device check while monting and the label is no longer needed.

 

[XIII]

Better to give it a distinct label, not the same as the system uses.

Does the system use "usb"?

I thought it was "dev/sda1" mounted on "/tmp/mnt/sda1".

Will retry with a different name later this week.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Does the system use "usb"?

I thought it was "dev/sda1" mounted on "/tmp/mnt/sda1".

Will retry with a different name later this week.

If you see it as /tmp/mnt/sda1 then it has no label. The label woud be /tmp/mnt/<given label>.

 

[Protik]

Does the system use "usb"?

I thought it was "dev/sda1" mounted on "/tmp/mnt/sda1".

Will retry with a different name later this week.

Sometimes you have to unplug and plug the USB so that the router picks up the new name. Worth a try.

After plugging in, check /tmp/mnt/ directory to see if the USB is mounted with the name you wanted.

Sometimes you will see something like, "<usb name> (2)" in the /tmp/mnt/ directory. In that case restart the router to get the name right.

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[thelonelycoder]

Does the system use "usb"?

I thought it was "dev/sda1" mounted on "/tmp/mnt/sda1".

Will retry with a different name later this week.

"usb" would work, but as @Protik says, unmount and plug it back in or reboot the router.

 

[Xentrk]

For your information, a pfSense PfBlockerNG forum member posted a link to his web site listing IP block list resources available for use by host based ad blockers.
https://ant-techs.is/ip-blocklists/.

Near the top of the web page is a link https://filterlists.com/. I see some interesting ones for YouTube I will test with later.

Edit: Please note that filter lists do not work in AB-Solution.
https://www.ab-solution.info/use/hosts-files.html

 

[thelonelycoder]

I see some interesting ones for (...) I will test with later.

Just a friendly reminder: Filter lists do not work in AB-Solution.
https://www.ab-solution.info/use/hosts-files.html

 

[Devante]

Hey.

I installed ab-solution on my ASUS RT-AC68U.

I enabled pixelserv and chose the option for AdsBeGone! blocking.

I use PirateBay to test ad blocking and it doesn't block any of the ads.

I check my phone for ads and I still get most ads. For instance, in Imgur I get almost all ads. Maybe once in a while the ad bar won't show up.

I've flushed DNS and made sure the router is the DNS server.

Does this seem like normal behavior?

 

[DonnyJohnny]

Need clear browser cache.

 

[Devante]

Need clear browser cache.

I did that. And just to reiterate, the ads aren't really being blocked that much on any devices on my network. Phones included.

Does it block piratebay ads on AdsBeGone level?