b9AcE #NoEdits on Nostr: The advertising company Google is downgrading its side-hustle Chrome web browser (and ...
The advertising company Google is downgrading its side-hustle Chrome web browser (and by default Chromium derivatives) capabilities to become less secure and have less privacy by disabling essential browser-extensions like the ad-blocker uBlock Origin.
Ad-blocking not only, as it is most well known for, makes websites less distracting to use by removing intrusive ads but also enables blocking privacy-violating user-tracking and actually plain malicious content which in worst case could lead to takeover of your device with resulting compromising of private information such as banking details, etc.
No web browser should be used without a good ad-blocker except for specific research purposes and similar.
I would recommend switching to Firefox which isn't imposing that restriction, but if that is impractical or undesired as your solution you can also find more suggestions from topic-expert npub1kshgv6pp4h8sv3g0ypucdypultpdwq20nkzqmw26pntj5lqrpvwstmvvmy (npub1ksh…vvmy) of npub1xugdwrwep4usd2m8rdyj3gas5t6uwhazcgyg056we97arcvkxlss67ttz0 (npub1xug…ttz0) in their PeerTube Techlore (npub1vm3…pjh6) video here:
https://neat.tube/w/vAF3XbkuVKKc7n5VSbja93
You can just try some of those solutions and see which one you like the most.
It's an investment which costs nothing, but will make/keep your Internet usage easier, with more privacy and security in the long run.
Ad-blocking not only, as it is most well known for, makes websites less distracting to use by removing intrusive ads but also enables blocking privacy-violating user-tracking and actually plain malicious content which in worst case could lead to takeover of your device with resulting compromising of private information such as banking details, etc.
No web browser should be used without a good ad-blocker except for specific research purposes and similar.
I would recommend switching to Firefox which isn't imposing that restriction, but if that is impractical or undesired as your solution you can also find more suggestions from topic-expert npub1kshgv6pp4h8sv3g0ypucdypultpdwq20nkzqmw26pntj5lqrpvwstmvvmy (npub1ksh…vvmy) of npub1xugdwrwep4usd2m8rdyj3gas5t6uwhazcgyg056we97arcvkxlss67ttz0 (npub1xug…ttz0) in their PeerTube Techlore (npub1vm3…pjh6) video here:
https://neat.tube/w/vAF3XbkuVKKc7n5VSbja93
You can just try some of those solutions and see which one you like the most.
It's an investment which costs nothing, but will make/keep your Internet usage easier, with more privacy and security in the long run.