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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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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:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg
I'm sure Firefox has the same.
Here some for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/search/?q=user-agent
I'm not sure that's going to fix the technical problems I have.