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        Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

        When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.

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          I would argue it’s a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.

          So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that’s what I would mention.

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          Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

          My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: “The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome.”

          What makes this doubly stupid is that I’m a web developer. I literally can’t test my stuff on another browser…

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          I used to develop ads (non intrusive things for home depot or go RVing) and i used ad blockers. When testing, i would just run private browsing with plugins disabled…

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        Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It’s a full MS environment.

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          Same here. The worst thing is in their justification of disallowing Firefox they listed that it was not an enterprise application. I get that it might be extra effort to support it but don’t list something factually untrue as a lame cop out for why you don’t want to.

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            Was told it wouldn’t be allowed because you couldn’t restrict it using GPO… Until I told them they could absolutely apply those restrictions using GPO and even provided the ADMX templates.

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          Click on every single ad and banner, click “I agree” on every pop-up. Make that computer hate it’s life!

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        At large organizations you’re generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it’s a no, it will probably stay a no.

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          I work for a non-profit and they are way more lenient about what we would like to install as long as the job gets done.

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            Then you have bad opsec and security holes.

            This matters more for some industries than others. But this attitude lets a malicious employee install basically whatever they want in service of “the job” and you won’t even know you’re being breached until after it’s all over.

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              Well, we still have to get approval. But it just seems like they don’t mind as much. For example, I don’t know how many companies out there would be fine with installations of AutoHotkey and LibreOffice.

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          In your experience, what large organization restricts this? I’ve worked at a few SaaS companies and a FAANG that always gave us full install rights and browser choice. Granted we are on the software side, but I haven’t experienced this at all.

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      If you had uBlock origin already, you may have gotten a message through Chrome that it was no longer supported, so it’s been disabled, and gives you the option to remove it. I noticed you don’t have to remove it, and it can be re-enabled. However, I need someone smarter with adblockers than I to say if this is actually helpful and not hazardous.