I bet it really was on! A lot of Windows programs install companion apps that aren't highly visible, but run in the background all the time to do things like load up some of the main program's libraries to make the app seem to start faster when you run it, as well as check for updates on its own, phone home about whatever they want, and watch to make sure it is the default application vs any competing apps on the system with similar functionality, etc.

Note that a lot of that functionality is of little too no benefit to the user, but the app is shamelessly using the user's stuff without really asking, including sometimes to the point where it makes your computer run worse.

But why do you love helping Google control web standards, when you could just be using a Mozilla-based browser instead?

ublock origin lite sadly does only a fraction of what the normal ublock origin does. no javascript blocking, no remote fonts blocking, no large media element blocking, no granular dynamic filtering in that popup panel. i guess it's still decent to block ads though, but so very crippled compared to the real deal

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I use firefox because of its containers

But... tons of browsers have that.

There are darkmode extensions for firefox. Or do you like to use your own?