Adblocker no longer blocks adds from https://www.light.gg

[Orionsnet]

I just got an R3 last week. When I turned on Adblocker, it would not display adds on www.light.gg. I could tell because in the windows where the adds normally appeared it asked to remove them from my block list because the adds help them pay to keep their site up. I never had to add any custom block for the site for this to work, Ijust turned on Adblocker. Now after a couple days, the adds are back  I tried adding the URL https://www.light.gg and http://www.light.gg to the custom URL block list, but it didn't work. For example when I go to this page https://www.light.gg/db/items/3218364298/redrixs-estoc/?p=3250034553,3230963543,2579169598,1015611457,4259401308,150943602,0 the adds are there, but they were not after originally turning on Adblocker. Can you tell me what happened and how to get these adds blocked again? Thanks!

[Netduma Fraser]

I just tested and it's working for me, if you're on the site/have been on it recently and then enabled the Adblocker then it's likely the ads will still show. If you access using an incognito window the ads should then show blocked so you'll need to clear the cache/cookies for that website on your browser and then the ads should get blocked again.

[Orionsnet]

Unfortunately, the ads still show up in incognito window, after clearing the browser cache, and even did a factory reset on the R3 router to start fresh, but the ads still show. I tried turning off the built in Allow List as well an that didn't work either. Any ideas? 

[Netduma Fraser]

I've given you Early Access so you can upgrade to the firmware there - that was the firmware I tested it on

https://forum.netduma.com/forum/151-netduma-r3-early-access/

[Orionsnet]

Appreciate the updated firmware!

Unfortunately, that didn't remove the ads. I was trying different settings though to still see if I could get rid of them and I made 2 changes at once that worked for about an hour which was re-enabling IPv6 and changing my DNS to CloudFlare 1.1.1.2 primary and 1.0.0.2 Secondary (and put in their respective IPv6 DNS in as well). Unfortunately, the ads magically came back after about an hour without any other further changes, so I don't know what's up with that. 

On a side note, with the new firmware I have yet to get Ping Optimizer to successfully run once (always gets the message "DumaOS is unable to complete the Ping Optimizer process due to external circumstances.") in a few days and I only got Speed Test to work 3 times in the past 3 days when trying randomly (besides the 3 rare times it worked it usually always sits at the starting Speed Test pop up and just sits there until you close it).

Regardless of Ping Optimizer and Speed Test not working with the new firmware, the behavior of Adblocker working for about an hour after turning on IPv6 and changing the DNS servers was the same behavior of when I 1st setup the router out of the box, Adblocker worked for about an hour and then somehow stopped working without changing anything which makes no sense to me. It does seem like the ads take a little longer to load though and sometimes 1 out of 4 or 5 ads on the page will stay blocked.

After the ads came back I did repeat the clear browswer cache and open in incognito window again, but the ads were still back.

Reversing my changes, 1st I changed back to my ISP provided DNS and this made no difference with the ads, they were still there after deleting cache and ipconfig /flushdns.

2nd, turning IPv6 back off, deleting browser cache, rebooting computer also did not keep the ads from being blocked even in Incognito window. Note: I've had an assigned DHCP IP lease for the computer and it is on 5G wifi.

So something about turning on IPv6 before and changing the DNS servers got rid of the ads for an hour and I'm thinking it was because it forced a new IPv6 address to the computer vs. the static IPv4 lease assigned in DHCP.
With this in mind I changed the static IPv4 address in the DHCP reservation just to see if an IP change would make a difference since when I 1st installed the router and ads also were blocked for about an hour, it got a new IP address then as well from the one the prior router leased it (this is the main thing I can think of thats in common from the 2 scenarios).

After changing the staic IPv4 DHCP reservation, clearing the browser cache and rebooting the computer to pick up the new IP, here are the results.
Opened the originally posted link on Light.gg in Incognito window and the ads were there and the same without incognito which is leaving me at a loss of my changes made any difference for an hour like when the router was 1st setup on its OEM out of the box firmware. Adblocker in DumaOS does inflate like its showing that it is blocking ads in the router GUI when accessing the webpage and maybe it is blocking something, but not the ads on the webpage.

Lastly before giving up for now I've switched DNS on router IPv4 only and left IPv6 off back to CloudFlare 1.1.1.2 primary and 1.0.0.2 Secondary, changed static DHCP static IP computer reservation again, cleared browser cache on computer and powered it down, rebooted router, and powered computer back on to pick up new IP and DNS. Unfortunately, the ads were still there in Incognito window and normal window on webpage Giving up for now after many hours of testing. 

If you have any further suggestions, let me know.
If not, I may revert back to 4.0.5540 so Speed Test and Ping Optimizer work again.

Thanks for looking into this and trying to help!

[Netduma Fraser]

From a factory reset what specific settings have you/did you change exactly? Have you disabled SmartBOOST or DPI at all?

[Orionsnet]

As far as settings go, I did not disable SmartBOOST or DPI (I don't even know where to disable them in the GUI yet).

The only things I have done is toggled IPv6 on and off for LAN and WAN (currently on), DNS Override enabled to switch to CloudFlare DNS servers, Added static IP reservations for my 5 wifi devices and prioritized them, Enabled Spanning Tree Protocol and Port Scan Protection.

[Netduma Fraser]

18 minutes ago, Orionsnet said:

As far as settings go, I did not disable SmartBOOST or DPI (I don't even know where to disable them in the GUI yet).

The only things I have done is toggled IPv6 on and off for LAN and WAN (currently on), DNS Override enabled to switch to CloudFlare DNS servers, Added static IP reservations for my 5 wifi devices and prioritized them, Enabled Spanning Tree Protocol and Port Scan Protection.

Could you disable Spanning Tree Protocol, reboot, then try again please?