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Using Chrome and caring about privacy? I thought, after Google killed uBlock Origin, it had become beyond clear these two things were incompatible, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41905368




Most people using chrome are also using Google's DNS servers too which hands them a list of every single domain you visit.

uBlock origin just got replaced with uBlock lite for most people

Which, by design, doesn't protect you from actual spying, https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

There's a way to enforce loading UBo in Chromium but you need to download the extension by hand (git clone it from GitHub) and load it in "developer mode" in the extension settings. Also, you need to enable some legacy options related to extensions in about:flags.

Which really puts a massive spotlight on you.



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