Google Confirms They Will Disable uBlock Origin in Chrome Mid 2024
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My dad has dementia, but wont give up his laptop. uBlock keeps him from clicking literally every scam on the internet. My life will become a nightmare of tech support.
Someone should honestly sue google after being scammed for stopping uBlock Origin from working.
I honestly wouldn't be opposed to the government making advertisements 100% optional IN ALL THINGS. People should be able to choose to opt-in and opt-out of all advertisements. That should be a damn amendment to the constitution.
Our governments will make a law that says you can't block ads.
Sounds about right.
They'll spend millions policing every second of every youtube video for someone saying anything naughty about the beer virus, but heaven forbid they ever even manually review a single ad they put up.
I'm sure it's something you've already investigated but a thin client or pi with PiHole still pretty effectively nukes all ads without ublock.
Wait - are you suggesting his dad connects through a raspberry pi to filter out ads?
Not exactly. You put a device on your network that you let handle DNS and it black holes everything that matches the blocklists
Does it help with the random pop up crap they add to their site, like the one encouraging people to sign in? Most of my custom filters in UBO are things I've added over the years to keep YouTube usable.
Thanks. I'll see what I can learn about that.
Besides the other suggestions, a premium Malwarebytes license might also be helpful.