Well, just install the fucking extension in Firefox. There is nothing else that is as good as uBlock Origin. E.g. Reddit prevents you from reading unless you log in? There's a filter for that in an "annoyances" block-list that you can activate.

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austhrow743 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can people working at places that don’t let them install Firefox without an enterprise contract just go and install extensions?

	▲	traverseda an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Firefox already had a very mature policy management engine, it just didn't have a nice gui and would require like ansible or something to use. It allows forcing specific extensions on, and allowing user installs is a flag. I use the policy engine on nixos to install some plugins and disable some of firefox's dumber features.

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vivaldi_bt 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>just install the fucking extension

...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.

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kotaKat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I wanted to, but my dumbass global IT department directly blocks uBlock Origin, Origin Lite, and AdBlock by extension IDs. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, the works.

I cannot even begin to fathom that stupid fucking decision from someone above me.

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coldpie an hour ago | parent [-]

My company's security dept briefly (briefly!) put GCC on the banned software list. Yes, that GCC. Buncha big brainlords in that dept.

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Telaneo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

How did that work out for them?

	▲	coldpie an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Probably took them some time to clean up all of the the Work Stoppage tickets that every dev in the company filed, lol.

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rockdoe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been doing consultancy for OSS development and one in-between company asked me to sign a contract that had a random clause in it somewhere that banned the use of OSS for work.

When I pointed this out, they said "just ignore that part".

Nope LMAO!

	▲	Wowfunhappy 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		...if you are told in writing (say over email) to ignore a part of the contract, can you do that? Does that part no longer apply?