Diversion CAN or CANNOT Diversion block ads in the Apple News app

[festus77]

Good afternoon all - I've been researching this subject for a few days now, but am unable to find a definitive answer. I like the look and feel of the News app, but it is just littered with ads.

Thanks,
festus

 

[heysoundude]

If you can suss out how to make them disappear, the YouTube blocking crowd would like to talk to you, I'm sure.

 

[HairyA00]

Pretty sure it requires CNAME deep inspection @festus77 . I don't see any ads in the Apple News app with Pi-hole for example (I'd imagine the same is true for Adguard Home which also supports it).

I don't think this is something that Diversion can solve; I believe dnsmasq would need to add this functionality for it to "work" in Diversion.

Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: Canonical Name (CNAME) cloaking is a new measurement technique to circumvent third-party browser extensions.

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Or try this list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers/master/combined_disguised_trackers_justdomains.txt

Here are the exact blocklists that I use in Pi-hole:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

https://dbl.oisd.nl/

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/piracy-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/drugs-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/torrent-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/fraud-nl.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/dht-bootstrap-nodes

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/file-hosting

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/proxies

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/streaming-audio

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/streaming-video

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-clients

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-trackers

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-websites

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/usenet

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/warez

 

[festus77]

Pretty sure it requires CNAME deep inspection @festus77 . I don't see any ads in the Apple News app with Pi-hole for example (I'd imagine the same is true for Adguard Home which also supports it).

I don't think this is something that Diversion can solve; I believe dnsmasq would need to add this functionality for it to "work" in Diversion.

Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: Canonical Name (CNAME) cloaking is a new measurement technique to circumvent third-party browser extensions.

blog.apnic.net

Or try this list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers/master/combined_disguised_trackers_justdomains.txt

Here are the exact blocklists that I use in Pi-hole:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

https://dbl.oisd.nl/

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/piracy-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/drugs-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/torrent-nl.txt

https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/alt-version/fraud-nl.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/dht-bootstrap-nodes

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/file-hosting

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/proxies

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/streaming-audio

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/streaming-video

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-clients

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-trackers

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/torrent-websites

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/usenet

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/piracy-blocklists/master/warez

Thanks so much HairyA00 !!!!!!!
I'll look into this a little more in depth later today.

Edit: About 5 hours later - been reading Apple News app for about an hour now - no ad after adding "EasyPrivacy" list to AdGuard.
Thank you! Thank you!

 

[pmosher441]

Thanks so much HairyA00 !!!!!!!
I'll look into this a little more in depth later today.

Edit: About 5 hours later - been reading Apple News app for about an hour now - no ad after adding "EasyPrivacy" list to AdGuard.
Thank you! Thank you!

Good news, I'm glad you got it working. Where did you find the EasyPrivacy list? It doesn't seem to be in the standard AdGuardHome collection of lists.

thanks,