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If you're forced to use Chrome, what ad blocker do you use? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month 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. 🤓