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Making sense of the Google Chrome and ad blocker extensions mess

You should never blindly trust Google, but things aren't as bad as you might think this time.

I wanted to understand how extensions worked a while ago, so I wrote a couple of very complicated ones to display Photospheres stored in Google Photos and depended on the fact that I could host scripts that ran remotely. If Google continues to allow older extensions to run, users could install the unpackaged version in Chrome using developer mode. (Image credit: Future)If you want to go a step further, use a fast VPN that blocks ads or build your own hardware-based device like a Pi-Hole.

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