In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy
Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this
in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to
tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to
get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not
seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve >accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments
or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF.
I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in,
but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I
reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
So I think this is all one has to do, plus one has to remember how to
get to one's profile for the account features you mention. Because if
you google google login for example, it will point you to >accounts.google.com, which no longer works. I'm not good at
remembering things (that's why I got a computer) but one only has to
change accounts to myaccount and then it works.
So thanks for the help. It worked. When I speculated that the box had
no url, clearly I was wrong.
If you do have a google account, and all you want to stop is the popup >>asking you to sign-in with google, they you want ABP, or uBO enabled, >>presume you know how to get to the "My filters" tab and add the line I >>originally showed?
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:29:21 -0400, micky ><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:Possible big oops. Contradictory results. In the win10Pro, I tried to
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy >>Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this >>>in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to >>tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to
get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not >>seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve >>accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments
or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF.
I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in, >>but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I
reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:29:21 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy
Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this
in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to
tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to
get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not
seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve
accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments
or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF.
I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in,
but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I
reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
So I think this is all one has to do, plus one has to remember how to
get to one's profile for the account features you mention. Because if
you google google login for example, it will point you to
accounts.google.com, which no longer works. I'm not good at
remembering things (that's why I got a computer) but one only has to
change accounts to myaccount and then it works.
So thanks for the help. It worked. When I speculated that the box had
no url, clearly I was wrong.
If you do have a google account, and all you want to stop is the popup
asking you to sign-in with google, they you want ABP, or uBO enabled,
presume you know how to get to the "My filters" tab and add the line I
originally showed?
It's been one more day (more than 2 total) and I have not seen the
Google login box in the laptop, runing win10 HOME, but on the desktop
running win10 PRO, which I had not modified, I did get a google login
box when I went to reddit.com.
I'd like to get rid of it there too, but when I went to the HOSTS file
and opened it, a box said that the file is Read Only, and I'd have to
turn off read only, and even after I did that, I'd have to save the file under a different name or first close the application (Windows) that has
the file open. Aha, I had not yet done what I had to do in win`10
Home, check Run as Administrator in the Advanced section of the EditPad
Lite home page icon. Once I did that, it said nothing to me about it
being Read Only. Using File Explorer, or whatever comes with win10, I
see that it's NOT read only, even though it told me that a few minutes
ago. What's going on?
However reloading the reddit.com page and didn't bring up the gooogle
login box. Could that be because it was the second time in a row I
loaded that page, or is it gone for good.
Another windows question, now that win10 has been added here:
BTW, this is one of the reasons I dread getting a new computer. I can reinstall all my programs and copy over all what is found in data directories, but it won't included the HOSTS file, will it? I have to remember to do that separately. Is there a list that others have
compiled of miscellaneous places I should look to find changes I made to windows that I will want to transfer to a new computer?
Another thing is the setting I changed to delay the v. small
mini-windows from popping up above the taskbar, corresponding to where
the cursor is. I find them annoying and of no use, and I got rid of
them by increasing the time it take for them to popup, but I don't
remember where or how I did it.
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:56:47 -0400, micky ><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:29:21 -0400, micky >><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:Possible big oops. Contradictory results. In the win10Pro, I tried to
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy >>>Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this >>>>in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to >>>tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to >>>get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not >>>seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve >>>accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments >>>>or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF.
I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in, >>>but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I >>>reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
look in the android app store and got an error trying to find >accounts.google.com but in win10Home, it works fine, even though I just >checked the HOSTS file and accounts.google.com is still there, with >127.0.0.1.
What's going on?
Possible big oops. Contradictory results. In the win10Pro, I tried to
look in the android app store and got an error trying to find accounts.google.com but in win10Home, it works fine, even though I just checked the HOSTS file and accounts.google.com is still there, with 127.0.0.1.
What's going on?
what is 'cacls'?
Big Al wrote:
what is 'cacls'?
Change ACLs ... later version xcacls and current version icacls
takeown and
cacls.
On 6/19/24 09:24 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Big Al wrote:Thanks, Access Control List.
what is 'cacls'?
Change ACLs ... later version xcacls and current version icacls
Big Al wrote:
Access Control List.
  There are different ways to go about it, but I wrote it
that way because there's a utlity out there somewhere
to add the whole operation to a context menu. I figured
that if people look up "takeown cacls" then they should be
able to find the utility. Sorry for the confusion.
Newyana2 wrote:
Long story short, lackey restrictions are widely applied, even
for Admins with UAC turned down and LUA disabled. I can't
even open the folder with my lockscreen pictures without
cleaning off the restrictions.
The Lockscreen picture folder opens without restriction on this Win10
device with the default UAC setting
UAC was previously called/known as LUA.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
My machine reports that I don't have permission to save over top of "hosts". >The file really should be upper-case, for fun, like before. It was HOSTS
on WinXP.
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:05:44 -0400, micky ><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
But only blocking the gsi/iframe psath with a filter
||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/
Possible big oops. Contradictory results. In the win10Pro, I tried to >>look in the android app store and got an error trying to find >>accounts.google.com but in win10Home, it works fine, even though I just >>checked the HOSTS file and accounts.google.com is still there, with >>127.0.0.1.
What's going on?
Even in win10 Home, though it let me search for an app, showed me a
list, let me pick one and read about it, let me click in Install, and
gave me a choice of my 2 phones, at that point it couldn't retrieve >accounts.google.com, so it didn't work.
For those who didn't read the Android ng, Andy had a line to put into a >couple of the ad blockers which iirc would work, but I dont' use an ad >blocker except what comes with Firefox, so I haven't tried it.
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:05:44 -0400, micky ><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:56:47 -0400, micky >><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:29:21 -0400, micky >>><NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:Possible big oops. Contradictory results. In the win10Pro, I tried to >>look in the android app store and got an error trying to find >>accounts.google.com but in win10Home, it works fine, even though I just >>checked the HOSTS file and accounts.google.com is still there, with >>127.0.0.1.
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:07:47 +0100, Andy >>>>Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
sticks wrote:
On 6/16/2024 3:12 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
so if you want to block *all* use of accounts.google.com, just put this >>>>>in your etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
That's what I did. I wasn't hurrying to post back because it's hard to >>>>tell if this really cured the boxes poppping up that we were trying to >>>>get rid of. it's only been a little over a day, but I think I have not >>>>seen that box.
I did do testing and as one would axpect, attempting to retrieve >>>>accounts.google.com met with failure.
OTOH, entering myaccount.google.com brought up that page....
but then you won't be able to get to account features such as payments >>>>>or changing your password.
...And indeed, I was logged in already, using the password saved in FF. >>>>I didn't want to log out yesterday, in casae it was hard to get back in, >>>>but before I replied to your post just now, I did log out, then I >>>>reentered myaccount.google.com and poof, I was logged in again.
What's going on?
Even in win10 Home, though it let me search for an app, showed me a
list, let me pick one and read about it, let me click in Install, and
gave me a choice of my 2 phones, at that point it couldn't retrieve >accounts.google.com, so it didn't work.
For those who didn't read the Android ng, Andy had a line to put into a >couple of the ad blockers which iirc would work, but I dont' use an ad >blocker except what comes with Firefox, so I haven't tried it.
I know that filter works in uBlock Origin, I've not used ABP for a few||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/
Puting the line above in uBlocks or probably the same line in at least
one other ad blocker?
So I either have to keep turning it on and off by rediting HOSTS, or I
have to allow the Google login box to show up, at least in one computer.
On 6/19/24 17:09, micky wrote:
[snip]
So I either have to keep turning it on and off by rediting HOSTS, or I
have to allow the Google login box to show up, at least in one computer.
It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't hide stuff I want to read.
[snip]
micky wrote:
I know that filter works in uBlock Origin, I've not used ABP for a few||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/
Puting the line above in uBlocks or probably the same line in at least
one other ad blocker?
years, but I think think the filter syntax is close enough the same for
it to work there.
Putting accounts.google.com into hosts will stop the popup, but is
likely to prevent you logging in to google altogether.
AFAIK acrylic DNS is like a more flexible hosts file, but I don't think
it can act on paths in URLs, you'd need a http proxy for that, I can't >comment as I don't use it ...
If google's popups on 3rd part sites annoy you, you probably need to
install some sort of blocker, since a hosts file isn't flexible enough
to stop the popup, but allow you to login to google.
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