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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I believe that some organizations restrict what applications can be installed on work computers, so that might not necessarily be true, at least for work machines.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

One more vector of malware for these corporate systems. Sucks for them I suppose.

[–] acosmichippo 13 points 3 months ago

if they’re restricting apps to that degree you probably can’t install extensions anyway.