I have my DNS on my phone set to dns.adguard-dns.com - seems to work fine for most websites, blocking ads where appropriate. Not so stuff.co.nz. Just seems to hang at their stupid 'scrolling S' loading screen. Any ideas?
I’m running pihole and the website and app won’t load past that screen for me either. Their videos never loaded in the app previously because of the ad that shows prior to the content.
I suspect it’s the same issue with there being a full screen ad between the loading screen and website. Because the ad doesn’t load it gets stuck and won’t connect through.
The workaround that I’ve found is to go to stuff.co.nz/world first and then navigate from there.
I have pihole & same thing, it loads a big S splash screen that animates for ever & goes nowhere. But if you browse to /world first you can then view the whole site.
But, given their "upgrade" also seems to have ditched their RSS feeds, my workaround is to simply not read Stuff anymore.
RNZ is great, Of the mediums it doesn't have the same reach, it's quality which should happen on TVNZ etc. I know they are funded as well, but it seems like they are just as bad as everyone else.