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RCoapman Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 5141 Location: Back in the snowy homeland 11/15/23 10:00 AM	GCN+ cancelled Not sure if anyone else here uses this app/service but I really enjoyed it. All the racing coverage you could ever want, lots of extra content around road cycling, even a smallish community space to share bike pics, stories, etc. Of course the corporate [profanity-laden description redacted] have decided to 'consolidate their streaming offerings' and ruin a great option for those who love everything about today cycling. Basically their obscene profits aren't obscene enough. I really hate corporate [more profane adjective-noun combinations redacted].

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/15/23 12:39 PM	Cut content, raised cost, or both? Ahh... you mean the 12/19/2023 digital door slam... I thought you meant discontinued your subscription at first. A lotta cyclists will quite be unhappy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xBGH-ISFU&ab_channel=GlobalCyclingNetwork

dfcas Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 2815 Location: hillbilly heaven 11/19/23 9:11 AM	It must be tough to make it with cycling as the ptimary sport. NBC Sports shut down, GCN+, and that tv channel that I cant remeber the name of threw in the towel. Seems somebody could just buy the eurosport feed. I'd watch with a foreign language.

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/19/23 9:53 AM	VPN video killed the radio stars?

RCoapman Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 5141 Location: Back in the snowy homeland 11/20/23 9:47 AM	Eurosport subscription is fairly locked down to non-euro customers, as I understand it. Going to try, of course, but I'm sure nothing will be as good as GCN. The best part of GCN+ was no ads at all. I straight out refuse to watch anything with ads in it anymore. I have loads of software, extensions, etc on my phone/computer to block ads. I even run my own DNS server at home to specifically block domains known to serve ads.

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/20/23 11:42 AM	Like to see your block list to apply to one myself...

Nick Payne Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 2626 Location: Canberra, Australia 11/22/23 3:57 AM	quote: Like to see your block list to apply to one myself... I've been running Pihole on a Raspberry Pi as my DNS at home for quite a few years, and don't need to run any blockers or extensions on any of the machines in the house to live an ad-free existence. I've accumulated the following Pihole blocklists. Pihole automatically re-reads these on a weekly basis to pickup any changes in the domains in the lists: https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/abuse.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/ads.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/crypto.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/drugs.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/facebook.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/fraud.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/gambling.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/malware.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/phishing.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/piracy.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/porn.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/ransomware.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/redirect.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/scam.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/tiktok.txt https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/torrent.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt https://adaway.org/hosts.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser 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 I also use the following exact blacklist domain entries, to prevent Windows reporting back to Microsoft: watson.telemetry.microsoft.com settings-win.data.microsoft.com telemetry.microsoft.com telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net telemetry.urs.microsoft.com And the following regex blacklist domain entries for other crap that I can do without: (^\|\.)doubleclick\.net$ (^\|\.)facebook\.com$ ^(.+[_.-])?ad([sxv]?[0-9]\|system)[_.-] ^(.+[_.-])?adse?rv(er?\|ice)?s?[0-9][_.-] ^(.+[_.-])?telemetry[_.-] ^adim(age\|g)s?[0-9][_.-] ^adtrack(er\|ing)?[0-9][_.-] ^advert(s\|is(ing\|ements?))?[0-9][_.-] ^aff(iliat(es?\|ion))?[_.-] ^analytics?[_.-] ^banners?[_.-] ^beacons?[0-9][_.-] ^count(ers?)?[0-9][_.-] ^pixels?[-.] ^stat(s\|istics)?[0-9][_.-] ^track(ing)?[0-9]*[_.-] If I find that some website that I actually want to use doesn't work with these entries, I look in the Pihole query log to see what is being blocked, and whitelist if needed. But after the initial setup phase it pretty much runs itself.

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/22/23 3:07 PM	Question: loaded pihole on a fresh ubunto install on old PC. I got all that except the regex blacklist entries, does not like the special charactors

Nick Payne Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 2626 Location: Canberra, Australia 11/22/23 6:37 PM	To add a regex blacklist entry, I open the Pihole web admin console in a browser, go to domains, click on the "Regex filter" tab at the top, enter the regex expression, and click on "Add to blacklist".

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/22/23 7:32 PM	Duh, didn't see the tab... Thanks It is nuts how many blocks occurred in about 6 hours since I set up the server. I am suprised I have waited this long. But honestly, it was reading about ATSC 3 recently that got my goat. I guess it spilled over.. That was fun, not done that stuff for years... ISO image to USB Boot install OS, and terminal window command line stuff like old AIX mounting of new devices, etc etc. The total blocked count keep rising, up to +16% in less 10 hours... 30 hours in @ 53.1% blocked...

RCoapman Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 5141 Location: Back in the snowy homeland 11/24/23 10:43 AM	Late to reply, but Nick covered it. I run a pihole dns server on a raspberry pi. WOrks brilliantly. One note is that pihole can't block things like FB or reddit sponsored posts because they are served from the FB and reddit domains. Hate that...

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 11/30/23 1:28 PM	On a funny side note: This is how old the Dual Core Laptop I used for my DNS server is it seems: >This was in the discy media platter drive thingy. ;)

KerryIrons Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 3236 Location: Midland, MI 12/1/23 9:47 AM	Remember when Bill Gates said all anyone would ever need was 512K of memory?

Sparky Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 19083 Location: PDX 12/1/23 11:51 AM	quote: Remember when Bill Gates said all anyone would ever need was 512K of memory? And then came the GUI. ;)

Nick Payne Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 2626 Location: Canberra, Australia 12/4/23 12:33 AM	Well, to get continued cycling coverage I came to an arrangement with my brother in Switzerland - he signed me up to Eurosport there (the signup needs a Swiss credit card for payment) and provided the login details. I run the Eurosport app on my phone. and with a VPN set to Switzerland and split tunneling enabled I can access all the Eurosport coverage and cast it to my TV. And though it's Swiss coverage, the app allows me to change the language to English, and I get English commentary for most of what they broadcast. p.s. The subscription cost is €7/month.

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