Re:The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching...
by sirius87 on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:58AM
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I use banking and other sensitive sites in a separate browser profile with no extensions installed. On Mac, that would be something like "open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=secure" and on Linux "google-chrome --profile-directory=secure".
For the rest of the web in my Default browser profile, I do have ad-blocker extensions installed (uBlock Origin, some Violentmonkey scripts), but they're not linked to the Chrome store. I prefer loading them as unpacked extensions and updating them once in a while manually. Mainly in case some malicious actor takes control of these extensions pushes an update that does something wild.
For the rest of the web in my Default browser profile, I do have ad-blocker extensions installed (uBlock Origin, some Violentmonkey scripts), but they're not linked to the Chrome store. I prefer loading them as unpacked extensions and updating them once in a while manually. Mainly in case some malicious actor takes control of these extensions pushes an update that does something wild.