Posts by NickJP

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Re: This is not the first time this has "accidently" happened

For blocking YT ads, try adding these blocklists to Pihole. I have them in my Pihole config, and without any blocking at the PC or phone level, don't get YT ads when viewing through either browser or app:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/master/youtubelist.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/master/crowed_list.txt

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

I notice that on the Gigabyte website there is a firmware update for my motherboard (Z690 Aorus Pro) dated 31 May, and the description for it says "Addresses Download Assistant Vulnerabilities Reported by Eclypsium Research". Not that I've ever installed or run their App Center software...

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

I like the suggestion from the ABC news financial journalist, for a name that is both green and more accurate: Faceplant.

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

Run Pihole as your DNS server, and any search result that is an ad doesn't resolve and load if clicked on, because googleadservices is consigned to the bit bucket...

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Setup pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi and you don't need to run adblockers in the browsers on any device on your network. Plus a lot of web pages will load more quickly because the DNS requests they make for crap of various sorts don't resolve and the data doesn't get downloaded at all.

Distro diaspora: Four flavours of Ubuntu unpacked

Zorin

If you're going to talk about Linux for people fleeing Windows XP, you should mention Zorin - Ubuntu-based and looks more like Windows than any other distro I've seen...