ShepherdPie comments on Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can't install extensions on a work machine but you can add a network wide blocker?

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[–] kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Possibly, if you work from home

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't a company VPN bypass all that even though you are using your own internet connection to connect to the outside world?

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[–] kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe, I guess I don’t know enough to answer that. I do know that being on a company VPN isn’t always a requirement, though.

Either way, I’m not trying to argue for one approach to ad blocking over another as a one-size-fits-all solution, I just wanted to point out that it’s possible to have more control over the network than the computer in some cases.

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[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Typically yes, assuming that the company VPN sets DNS to a set of company DNS servers. That is how my company’s works and several others I’ve worked for in the past.

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