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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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My company forced us to use only Chrome on our PC's and one of the things I was worried about was the ads. I put youtube in the background while I work.
And I was surprised by how...... My experience was exactly the same as Firefox and Brave. Ok, actually, one or two ads managed to slip through and appeared in the front page - albeit rarely and randomly - but I never got those ads at the beginning of the video. On other websites, I never got ads.
I was wondering, then, if there was some catch. Maybe the trackers would still get through or something. But according to that link, not even that? lol
I’m surprised by these results tbh. And it seems for most people there is no big difference. But I do think for power users the catch is still there.
They used the default rule sets. One of the major limitations of mv3 iirc is the number of block list urls you can have. Like I’ve added a number of additional items to block via additional lists which I believe is mostly not possible in mv3.