Comment on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know what that is

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a neat trick that’s been around for ages. Your browser presents a string of text to the website to identify itself. “Hi! I’m Chrome_ver_whatever.”

    You can easily change it, make your browser lie to the website.

    Here’s the extension for Chrome and Edge:

    …google.com/…/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg

    I’m sure Firefox has the same.

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    • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here some for Firefox

      addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/search/?q=user-agen…

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure that’s going to fix the technical problems I have.

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