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Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Unless your firmware flasher is serving ads, and I really hope it isn't, there's no issue using chtome for things like that. Just use Firefox for everything else. It blocks more than just some ad trash. And you can have 2 browsers installed at the same time. They don't fight each other.