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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/EllaBean17 on 2024-06-08 18:55:15+00:00.

I’ve been noticing an influx of posts saying “there’s a ton of ads on such and such site now, even with adblock!” or “there’s fake download buttons on such and such site now!”

You are probably seeing more ads because - starting this month (June) - Chrome has started to force extensions to comply with changes that butcher their ad, redirect, and tracker blocking capabilities. Chrome is limiting the number of rules extensions can have to only 30,000, and disabling many of the rules used by adblocking extensions. uBlock Origin comes preloaded with over 300,000 filtering rules, and you can manually add pretty much as many more as you want

Technically, these changes are only currently being enforced on pre-stable versions of Chrome, but many extension developers are likely following Google’s advice to implement the changes by this month regardless

If you want to continue having effective adblock and privacy extensions, you should do the first thing the Megathread says and use Firefox or one of its forks. If you continue to use Chrome (or, afaik, any Chromium based browser), your extensions will at best only be able to block 1/10th of the ads that you can with uBlock Origin out of the box

And if you have not been using an adblocker at all… I mean I can get behind masochism, but not like that…