Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[CaptainSTX]

Just one quirk I noticed with Diversion. I disabled in on Saturday afternoon because I was having problems with Alexa and Diversion number one block is always Amazon analytics.

Overnight, I assume when Diversion refreshed its blocking lists, is restarted itself. Not a huge problem but it would be nice to have and on /off switch that stayed off.

Also as a side note Alexa was working fine again with Diversion running.

 

[Cleanev]

@thelonelycoder - Thanks for porting this from other adblocker. I was using other firmware and this was one thing that was holding me up to switch to merlin though I have couple 68U and 88U. I am liking diversion however I am not sure if I can see the logs (tail them like pihole) in webUI? I have also installed FreshJW QOS, YazFi, scribe, common, ntpMerlin, scMerlin, spdMerlin, uiDivStats, uiScribe, Entware, and others to test out. I havent’ delved into dnscrypt as I started having issues with apple home.

Long story short - is there specific whiltelisted domains for HomeKit to work. I managed to follow the log for blocked (option 3) sites and saw metrics.icloud.com that I whitelisted, however I am not sure where things fall off. When I turn off Diversion, HomeKit will not work till I reboot router. All works well till I reenable Diversion to break all. BTW, I am using large list.

Any help appreciated

 

[nlurker]

Looks like I nailed the YouTube feature...

Can you give a brief "for dummies" description of how your code is now doing what you always said was impossible?

 

[majnu]

are you seeing any dns queries to dnsmasq from the device? .... you should be able to see queries in the dnsmasq.log with the IP of your android tablet at the end. You can follow the dnsmasq log in diversion using f option 5 and enter the term googlevideo.com

May 10 06:48:19 dnsmasq[32061]: query[A] r5---sn-4wg7ln76.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.193

May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] redirector.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.193
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] redirector.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.193
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.8.8
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.8.8
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: reply redirector.googlevideo.com is 216.58.210.238
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: reply redirector.googlevideo.com is 216.58.210.238

 

[faria]

RT-AC86U Merlin 384.17

@thelonelycoder thanks for your tremendous efforts, truly appreciated.

I come across a weird problem with Diversion in my device, when updating hosts or processing lists the router reboots.
I'm currently running the latest version with YouTube adblocking enabled.

 

[tomsk]

May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] redirector.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.193
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] redirector.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.193
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.8.8
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded redirector.googlevideo.com to 8.8.8.8
May 10 22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: reply redirector.googlevideo.com is 216.58.210.238
22:15:46 dnsmasq[5803]: reply redirector.googlevideo.com is 216.58.210.238

So it can be seen here that your android device is using dnsmasq for dns queries which are being forwarded onto googles dns servers to resolve. But i don't see any requests for the ad domains.... are you getting ad domain requests from other devices when you view yt videos on them?

 

[majnu]

So it can be seen here that your android device is using dnsmasq for dns queries which are being forwarded onto googles dns servers to resolve. But i don't see any requests for the ad domains.... are you getting ad domain requests from other devices when you view yt videos on them?

You have to forgive me as I don't know what I am exactly looking for but this is what I get from my secondary android tablet.

May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.96
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.96
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8.sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is 213.123.253.87
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8.sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is 213.123.253.87

 

[tomsk]

You have to forgive me as I don't know what I am exactly looking for but this is what I get from my secondary android tablet.

May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.96
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: query[A] r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com from 192.168.1.96
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: forwarded r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com to 8.8.4.4
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8---sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is <CNAME>
May 10 23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8.sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is 213.123.253.87
23:15:11 dnsmasq[5803]: reply r8.sn-cu-auoz.googlevideo.com is 213.123.253.87

So your secondary tablet it making the ad domain requests ok...... i can't help thinking that there is some software on your primary tablet that is blocking these ad domain requests..... are you sure theres no ad blocking app on there already?

 

[OzTrip]

H Guys,

I have Diversion installed and enabled on my Asus RT-AC86U Merlin, I have also beta Youtube Adblock enabled. So far I see some addresses being logged against the browser or Youtube app on my iPad but I can still see ads on both browser and Youtube App for iOS. Video ads and right panel static ads within Youtube are visible?

 

[Joshuajackson]

@thelonelycoder just wanted to let you know, that as I've already mentioned before I got no ads so far on my fire tv stick which is great, but I do still get ads on mobile devices on YT. Just wanted to let you know.

Sent from my SM-A505W using Tapatalk

 

[OzTrip]

@thelonelycoder just wanted to let you know, that as I've already mentioned before I got no ads so far on my fire tv stick which is great, but I do still get ads on mobile devices on YT. Just wanted to let you know.

Sent from my SM-A505W using Tapatalk

Ah I see, I spend all this time installing and configuring my router to mainly block the iPad Youtube ads :-/ Thanks for your reply

 

[SuperDuke]

You have made possible that which was always claimed impossible.

I feel the excitement and energy in your post. It is well deserved and hard won.

I call upon fellow Diversion users to visit this link as Diversion has reached this major milestone!
https://diversion.ch/donate.html

Way off topic, but @thelonelycoder mentioned Bitcoin as a payment option...showing my age likely.....any recommendations on service provider (Canadian based say)....

 

[Asad Ali]

[mention]thelonelycoder [/mention] Okay so a question just popped up in my mind.

Soppose YouTube or our ISP decides to change its YouTube Egde node IP address or the IP goes down for some reason wouldn't it breaks YouTube for us? because we're forcing the videos to playback from that set IP address of our local YouTube edge node. I believe we need another check in Diversion to circumvent such a situation and make it dig against the *.googlevideo.com domains every few hours/days to make sure the IP is still the same and in case we get a different one, edit the already populated YT block list to the newly fetched IP.

I haven't seen any such checks in your code, though it is possible I might've missed it if it's already there.

 

[OzTrip]

BDW how to access Diversion tab on the router itself? I can't find this tab on my router?

 

[Asad Ali]

BDW how to access Diversion tab on the router itself? I can't find this tab on my router?

You need to use an SSH client for that.

 

[OzTrip]

You need to use an SSH client for that.

This tab?

 

[Asad Ali]

This tab?

That's a separate script and not part of Diversion.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/u...iversion-statistics.56393/page-29#post-582267

 

[Mutzli]

Can you give a brief "for dummies" description of how your code is now doing what you always said was impossible?

See this post, not very detailed:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/diversion-the-router-ad-blocker.48538/page-309#post-582041

 

[Mutzli]

My kids are reporting that on their iPhones the YT videos are not loading any longer. An error message pops up saying that it can't load that content - press here to try again, which never works. So they went on the cellular network to circumvent the ad blocker. Any one else having this issue?

 

[AntonK]

My kids are reporting that on their iPhones the YT videos are not loading any longer. An error message pops up saying that it can't load that content - press here to try again, which never works. So they went on the cellular network to circumvent the ad blocker. Any one else having this issue?

I'm having no problem with YT videos on my iPhone when connected to my home wireless network.