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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Or get network wide blocking. Doesn’t prevent everything but it does prevent most ads. Makes the internet tolerable at least.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (8 children)

nah, lets get them switched away from chromium based spy machines.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Not everyone can. Work machines for instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Depends on how lax the IT department is when it comes to random executables. I was able to move the firefox installer to the appdata root, and run a non-admin install to my user profile.

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