Turd FergIf you're forced to use Chrome, what ad blocker do you use?
BlueSquid0741Chrome specifically, or derivatives as well?
Helium I believe modified their code to allow ublock origin to work. Vivaldi has their own ad blocker iirc.
But if it’s just Chrome and not derivatives, then I don’t know.
Who forces you to use Chrome? I block Chrome at our org, lock down Edge pretty well with GPOs, and run Firefox as the 2nd browser of choice. I monitor/track as little as possible.
Hah, you don’t. We’re an org behind the times, modernizing a bunch but still very behind! Running an old ERP & WMS, no WFH, very old school mentality with everything printed on paper, communications very phone reliant, and Teams mostly sits there untouched by 90% of the org.
I’ve done well to update and modernize, but people are very set in their ways. Most people don’t get why i do what I do, but I know its for the best!
Plenty of government organisations where i am block other browser to reduce their attack surface area.
I can never understand why they default to ‘edge’ and chrome though…
So, funny you say that. We’re not a big company, we had a very old 100Mbs connection up into a few years ago, and with TBs of data we could never fully backup anything offsite. Sooo many other services trying to eat up bandwidth, it was a joke. I installed a couple Piholes and pointed AD DNS to them and adblocking made such a difference while browsing!! Surprisingly, Pi 3B handled 1m queries in 24 hr periods without breaking a sweat!
Edge and Chrome at very GPO friendly to lock stuff down for businesses. I do the same thing on purpose for security. Funnily enough I’ve got a couple users who hate big brother type stuff, very anti gov, conspiracy guys. I told them to get of Google and was stopped short to blab on about how Chrome is the best, etc. Fudds… Gave them a nice updated education on corporate overreach and they use Firefox and Ecosia now lol.
I like to have options, and I tend to send best practice emails out with read receipts cuz I know most of them don’t know how to ignore them. 🤓
I unfortunately have to use Chrome at work and uBlock origin light seems to work well enough. When I’m at home the pihole does most of the heavy lifting for the adblocking.
CerebralHawksClose, but when I use Safari on my iPhone, Wipr 2 does well by me. Even blocks ads on YouTube. I’ve uninstalled a few apps and replaced them with web shortcuts. So there are options outside of uBO for less open browsers.
It’s not in the chrome store, but Ad Nauseum. Between that and using the Vivaldi browser, I haven’t seen an ad on my desktop in literal years