On January 21, commit ^bbf70ec (warning: very large) added gyrovague.com to dns-blocklists, used by ad blocking services like uBlock Origin. This is actually beneficial, since if you have an ad blocker installed, the DDOS script’s network requests are now blocked. (It does not stop users from browsing to my blog directly.)
Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific
from the blog in question
- https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
can’t find anything from a quick look that confirms this list is used by default in ubo
I don’t see that particular list, but the same filter is present in EasyPrivacy from EasyList, which is enabled in uBO by default.
nice one, cheers. it’s there in line 16607 in EasyPrivacy, same guy runs btdig dot com?
||gyrovague.com^$domain=archive.fo|archive.is|archive.li|archive.md|archive.ph|archive.today|archive.vn|btdig.comI’ve read that somewhere else too, could be
It’s by default easylist-privacy list is default
I don’t know more than what the wiki article linked to. It says UBlock blocks it. It doesn’t say any more than that.