Hope this is the right place to ask,
Yesterday the forum helped me setup wifi over tor so all traffic using wifi goes over tor.
Now im wondering since that shows ads that way if i can use adguard and tor so wifi gets the benefit of both anonymous and no ads and if so how i can accomplish this?
Edit: Ok nevermind i figured it out had to disable a rule for tor dns and as i run dnscrypt already this shouldnt compromise anonimity
I tried adblock: update 4.1.0 and happy to see the new option Shallalist, UTCapitole, Energized and StevenBlack list section. I tried some categories, but seems it is not working. I noticed that there is no additional urls in the black list even if I selected some of the categories. Find this screenshot. Sources that is not in the collection works fine. Dont have any specific errors in Logview..
The option to create multiple DNS instance is great. But it seems very complicated. I was looking for some simple method , as like in AdGuard Home, where I can block/allow Blacklists and Safe search option based on internal IP address. Which means IP 1 block list 1 and IP 2 Blocklist 2 and IP 3 enable safe search.
Adguard Home is available on OPenWRT, But I dont want to use it because of two concerns.
Safe search not working all the time. We need to configure Adguard Home on a different port (since openWRTDNS works on port 53) and need to use DNS forwarding. So sometimes safesearch and filtering is misbehaving.
It sends the urls to a central server for categorizing the malware and adult related domains. Not comfortable with that.
I found Adblock is a perfect solution and many thanks for those who maintains it. I am using this for last 2 weeks and I like the solution.
I found some improvement areas so far in these;
ad 1) what kind of information is missing?
ad 2) not possible, adblock provides only a blocklist for different dns backends (there is no additional dns daemon running in the background like adguard). IP based views by dns backends are not supported yet widely - only bind support that if I remembered correctly. Just setup different dns instances or hardcode other non-local DNS on certain clients.
ad 3) that has nothing todo with adblock, that's just a feature of the used dns backend.
Hi Dibdot.. Many thanks for maintaining this great project. I am really thankful to you.
I was not knowing that Adblcok architecture and totally understand that Item #2 and #3 are not possible. Can you please provide some more details on how Adblock works to give me some idea.
Nice to have improvements for GUI DNS reports.
A filter that can filter more from the first criteria. For example, If the log shows the sites visited from my internal system, can we further drill down to Blocked/Allowed, which filter blocked it.
Maximum results set size can be from TO Date or a customizable number events
This one I don't think can be implemented with Adblcok. But may be you can advice. - I understand tcpdump is storing reports in pcap format in /tmp/adblock-Report/ directory and DNS Reports reading those. (correct me if I am wrong). Is there an application that can read the same .pcap files and create a Dashboard that can show which sites allowed/what category ( news/shopping etc), which sites blocked/what category (porn/dating/violence etc). I know this is outside of this application. But can you please advice.
You can't drill down in the global list itself (there are no back reference information in it).
This is not enough? You can filter for various criteria like a date, a domain or a client name, e.g.:
The report engine in adblock parse the pcap files and builds a json file for presentation in adblock (CLI and LuCI). I do not know any tools which builds categories or something like that based on pcap information - sorry.
Personally I don't want to use any plugins attached my browser, so that it has extensive access to the browser content and activities. I tried ADguard home with OpenWRT, but found safe search is not working frequently and also there is some miss on trackers. I believe that was because we use AdGuardHome on a different DNS port and using DNS forwarding. Then I decided to switch to Adblock and it is working perfect.
I dont think blocking YouTube Ads is possible, because YouTube streams ads along with the same data stream. For phone, I am using google free android OS and NewPipe, and it wont show any Ads while playing Youtube videos. Since this is not an openWRT subject, I dont want to discuss this more here
Chrome plugins are not understood by openwrt, but Chrome's adblock if it effectively blocks YouTube, that code can't be implemented? I understand little about programming