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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Unfortunately I'm stuck with Chrome at work so having something like Ublock Lite available is somewhat helpful. I just hope it still blocks youtube ads because they're the worst.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago

I strongly suspect that is exactly what they're trying to stop.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can't run firefox --profile /somewhere or (Windows) Firefox portable?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

You should be able to bring up about:profiles in your browser and set up and launch profiles from there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Firefox portable keeps me sane at work. I don’t give a shit about the IT policy of either chrome or edge.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am running a portable LibreWolf on my work issued, locked-down-with-a-chastity-belt-and-thrown-the-keys-into-the-fires-of-Mount-Doom-in-Mordor laptop with uBlock extension installed.

Try that and see if it works.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

clearly not that locked down if they’re allowing an external device access. cute story tho

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Did they mention external device access? I only see a mention of portable LibreWolf which I assume is referring to the “can just be ran from a folder dropped anywhere on the filesystem” version of portable, not necessarily that it’s an external device.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This sort of exaggeration is typically used for comedic effect. Sorry for trying to throw a smile on a random person’s face. You must be very fun to hang around at parties.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I consider browser ab blocking a reasonable accomodation for ADHD and I'm not even joking. I haven't had to ask for this yet but, seriously. Banner ads are extremely distracting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think it makes sense

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

ah you too work for a company that will let you install firefox but no extensions or addons??

fml

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We handle a lot of IP so I can't install anything on the PC that isn't pre-approved (like MS Teams). I am able to add certain extensions like Ublock but not others like Keepa (Amazon price tracker).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Can you install Brave? Because that has ad-block built-in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

My company enforces specific add-ons for Firefox so I installed and use LibreWolf which our admins don’t lock down - only Chrome and Firefox. I wanted a browser that I would use separately from my work that didn’t specifically need their add-ons which include traffic sniffing crap. I know that if I want to do any personal browsing and guarantee it’s personal, I should use my own device but I was honestly just annoyed by the additional CPU cycles the security add-ons were using.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

it seems to work on youtube so far, but that could also be due to the previous custom filters I installed months ago when yt ramped up their "no adblocker" campaign. UBO still works in the sense that all of the filters and lists you've installed are still there and functioning, you just can't update the extension. I'm still running UBO alongside UBO lite and it's working fine for now (knock on wood) until I can afford a new Windows machine.