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If you're forced to use Chrome, what ad blocker do you use? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    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. ๐Ÿค“

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How do I become an employee of your org?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    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!

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