• Google is transitioning Chrome’s extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won’t be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there’s a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn’t boast the original version’s comprehensive ad-blocking features.
  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I would personally push adblockers in a professional environment. They eliminate a lot of unwanted threat vectors.

    There is a very rare occasion where it breaks things just one ticket later and a little education and it’s good.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      Around the time the FBI quietly updated their security recommendations to include recommending adblocking a couple of large local colleges in the very conservative area I live started pushing uBlock Origin to all of their computers. And if I were higher on the foodchain at my place of work I’d be pushing to enact a similar policy update