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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (www.theverge.com)
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 284 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (45 children)

"Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker"

No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Unfortunately I'm stuck with Chrome at work so having something like Ublock Lite available is somewhat helpful. I just hope it still blocks youtube ads because they're the worst.

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

ah you too work for a company that will let you install firefox but no extensions or addons??

fml

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We handle a lot of IP so I can't install anything on the PC that isn't pre-approved (like MS Teams). I am able to add certain extensions like Ublock but not others like Keepa (Amazon price tracker).

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago

Can you install Brave? Because that has ad-block built-in.

[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

My company enforces specific add-ons for Firefox so I installed and use LibreWolf which our admins don’t lock down - only Chrome and Firefox. I wanted a browser that I would use separately from my work that didn’t specifically need their add-ons which include traffic sniffing crap. I know that if I want to do any personal browsing and guarantee it’s personal, I should use my own device but I was honestly just annoyed by the additional CPU cycles the security add-ons were using.

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