My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads

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...
- 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.

Corporate ads? So like, all ads?
- basically

On their computer or yours?
- If it's connecting to the corporate LAN, it's our computer, comrade
  
  yas daddy
- our computers! they force us to use chrome and corporate email
  
  My policy has always been if you want me to use your crap, you provide the hardware. And if they still insist, they get to live with their garbage running inside a VM.
  There's exactly 0% chance I'm letting corporate spyware touch my data or have full access to my hardware. Between being able to lock down the operating system and remotely wipe the device, that shit cannot be trusted.
  
  Doing work on a personal device is problematic at best. Using your personal device can be optional but there needs to be a corporate provided device.
  
  What the fuck? Is that in your employment agreement? If not stop immediately

Pihole.
- Thanks for the suggestion about Pi-hole! I actually have NextDNS set up just in case! not seeing any ads so far. I find NextDNS more convenient as it works outside my home network as well. But I'm looking to get a Raspberry Pi to set up Pi-hole in my local network!!