I haven’t had to think about ads in years with ublock origin, but have been forced to use Chrome for some tasks recently. What’s a good alternative?
Ublock origin lite + little snitch + VPN filtering + DNS filtering + pi hole
This way, you have filtered many layers: user, computer, network.
I’d leave the internet.
Believe it or not: unlock origin
You can still use the command line policy overrides to use manifest v2 add-ons
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
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.
this day is coming that i can no longer use pfsense-ng + vpn to do this and; by then; i suspect ublock will stop working altogether.
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.
Plenty of government organisations where i am block other browsers to reduce their attack surface area.
I can never understand why they default to ‘edge’ and chrome though…
Maybe something less shit with ad blocking would be nice.
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. 🤓
How do I become an employee of your org?
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!
pretty common, at my work only chrome and edge are installed, you cannot use any other browser.
Is uBlock Origin Lite an option for you? I don’t use chrome, but it might work for your needs.
Close, 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.
Chrome 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.
