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My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Mine does the same (well, even less trusty addblocks are blocked).
But I found that copy/pasting the profiles folder of Firefox does the trick. In this folder there is an extension folder and xpi files that I can backup on the corporate cloud + usb drive to restore all my extensions.
Cause yeah, extensions are blocked but pasting into %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ is not :)
As a corporate IT drone, usually the extension blocks come from on high and we have no say in what they are. Also, the users that are smart enough to figure out ways around the blocks are not who we are worried about protecting from themselves.
honestly unless the higher ups complain, im looking the other way. i dont actually care all that hard.
smart! will this trick work on chrome? in my case, I just keep firefox (librewolf) for personal browsing, I do work on corporate browser (chrome), but it's still annoying to see ads while working
I don't know about Chrome but that would be worth a search. Our corporate browser was still IE for a while. Now it evolved to Edge.
They are deep in the MS ecosystem...
I'll give that a try! Thanks man
Oh interesting. I will be playing around with this lol.
It would be far better to consult your employer. Bypassing restrictions is not a good look.
LOL
Fuck the employer, we riot and strike every few months, does it look like we care about employer regulations and company image? Without us the company will die and the head of state won’t allow it, so we do basically whatever we want.
Plus safety isn’t the issue here, not when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 was the only supported browser till late 2023. We are talking here about the non safety critical "admin network", the network with only the administrative computer (emails, word processors etc).
The really safety critical network is air tight from the administrative world and Internet, it runs on Linux with tons of hardware redundancy.
Windows machines are just glorified type writers and internet browsing screens, they serve no operational business.
That's not a good way to stay employed
Ah no it’s not. But I’ll never lose my job over that.
And worst case scenario, I’ll get 80% of a huge salary for 2 years and plenty of free time to start my own business (blackjack and hookers not planned but everything is negotiable).