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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by blibble on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:13AM (#24827075)
that's some other random extension with a similar name whereas the original one was by Google themselves

personally I don't want some random third-party having the ability to exfiltrate my google cookie via an auto-updating extension

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by darekkay on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:40PM (#24831329)
> personally I don't want some random third-party having the ability to exfiltrate my google cookie via an auto-updating extension

Driven by the same motivation, I've first adapted a userscript [1], but later replaced it with simple uBlock Origin filters:

  google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".w3schools.com"])
[1] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/userscr...
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