THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY adblock-fast
Here's the story -- I was impressed by the elegance and simplicity of bole5's (from OpenWrt forum) single-file adblocking script and started tinkering with it a long time ago. I kept working on it and now turned it into simple-adblock and luci-app-simple-adblock (with some help/suggestions from @hnyman and @dibdot ).
There are a few things which differentiate this from another excellent adblocking solution by @dibdot :
It's very fast.
It understands hosts files and domains lists only (to keep it lean and fast).
Everything is configurable from Web UI and uci commands.You can add your own domains to whitelist or blacklist.
You can add URLs to your own blocked hosts or domains lists to block/whitelist.
Requires no configuration for the download utility wherever you want to use wget/libopenssl or uclient-fetch/libustream-mbedtls.
Installs dependencies automatically (DD/LEDE-default uclient-fetch libustream-mbedtls).
Just like @dibdot 's solution:
It uses dnsmasq to return "domain not found" (thanks @dibdot for the suggestion!) for blocked domains/hosts with no memory footprint for its own code .
It defaults to DNS-hijacking, so if you have local devices on your network with hardcoded DNS servers, simple-adblock will force them to use your router DNS server (both IPv4 and IPv6) instead.
The actual speed will depend on your router model and connection speed, but because it uses simple sed substitutions to process the whole list in one go and because it backgrounds processing of already downloaded data while the next list is being downloaded, it's pretty quick.
Check out the README for more information/instructions.
Both packages are available from my repo: https://docs.openwrt.melmac.net/#on-your-router
I welcome any feedback!
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Added the README link above.
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stangri
February 25, 2017, 6:11am
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In 1.5.5 I've added an option to assign one of the router LEDs to indicate adblocking status (on/off).
Can be set in config file/uci command or Web UI.
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Thanks for simple-adblock! I'm really impressed with how lean it is, while still being very functional!
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Now in official repo for trunk/snapshot images. For everything else -- there's my own repository.
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Hard to say without knowing why you failed.
Hi can u help me with this...
Sat Apr 1 12:26:05 2017 daemon.info odhcpd[1793]: Using a RA lifetime of 0 seconds on br-lanexample.net example.org example.com pool.ntp.org www.mvps.org [✗]pgl.yoyo.org [✗]www.malwaredomainlist.com [✗]adaway.org [✗]someonewhocares.org [✗]mirror1.malwaredomains.com [✗]s3.amazonaws.com [✗]s3.amazonaws.com [✗]s3.amazonaws.com [✗]gitlab.com [✗]dshield.org [✗]
Which device/OS is it happening on? Does it still happen on a freshly rebooted device?
Hey stangri! Thanks for your hard work! I'm still kind of new to the whole LEDE and what it has to offer and I'm very impressed with the sheer amount of work everyone in this community has put into it. And I just wanted to say thank you everybody! But I wanted to know, do I just run your simple ad block and disable the ad block in luci? Or do I run both? Just curious that's all
Uhm, is the LEDE 17.01.0 release available for your router? Can you try that? Thanks for posting the link to the thread on the image you're running, I'll try to reach out to the image builder to figure out what could be going wrong over the course of next week.
@Hemperror -- Daniel, if you don't mind doing a bit more testing, I'd appreciate it.
First, please add my repo to your LEDE install. Then do:
/etc/init.d/simple-adblock stop
opkg upgrade simple-adblock
uci set simple-adblock.config.debug=1; uci commit
/etc/init.d/simple-adblock reload
The new simple-adblock (1.5.6-9) should then create the debug log file at /var/simple-adblock.log -- please PM me this file.
I've published 1.5.7-1 to my repository, please upgrade to this version. It has a much stricter garbage removal filters.
Any chance you could start pushing your updates to the LEDE snapshots packages system rather than having to add another repo to a std LEDE system? It'd also ensure that the snapshot package is upto date.
This adblock is working great !
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I agree that the push to official repo is long overdue I'll try to send PR this (or next) weekend.
Good job mate. It's working well.
EDIT:
Maybe I'm not configuring correctly, but the following site does not ever load with this package installed on default settings:
PhoneArena is the premium website for new phone information such as full specifications, in-depth reviews, latest news, carrier available and upcoming phones. It features advanced phone filter, visual size comparison and 360 degree views of all hot...
Chrome always says DNS server not resolved as the error for loading this website
Here is the whitelist code I've put in /etc/simple-adblock (which still doesn't allow it to load):
list whitelist_domain 'http://www.phonearena.com '
Chrome always says DNS server not resolved as the error for loading this website
@rajsris -- there's a trigger so that service reloads if there're any changes to config file.
@hnyman -- could you please confirm that the code below should cause service reload (and not restart ) to be executed on the config changes?
service_triggers () {
procd_add_reload_trigger 'simple-adblock'
}