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Google Is Cracking Down on Ad Blockers, But Here's How You Can Fight Back
Google is starting to shut down uBlock Origin and other older ad blockers for Chrome, but there are steps you can take to keep blocking ads just like you always have.
Web Request can be used for good or ill, but without it, there’s potential for permissions nightmares as strict as needing users to allow ad blockers on a per-site basis, which could go beyond being annoying to actually introducing more security issues. Ghostery director of engineering and product Krzysztof Modraf agreed, saying, "extensions will lose important tools and permissions that have previously allowed them to quickly react to new threats directly from the user device.” “It’s very possible that the sites you visit do not require any of the filtering capabilities specific to uBO, in which case you won’t see a difference.” However, he followed that “In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker [tech].”
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