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  • Re: chromium - how to add existing adblocker to "Profile 1" ?

    From Dennis Lee Bieber@3:770/3 to and Imager will then on Saturday, September 18, 2021 12:54:03
    On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:57:26 +0200, "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> declaimed the following:

    I've used a Noobs installation in which chromium comes with an adblocker

    How old is that installation? The R-Pi foundation discontinued the NOOBS package some time back -- it was replaced by the "Raspberry Pi
    Imager"

    Imager runs on desktop computers and is used to select from the available OS images, and writes just that image to the SD card. This is different from NOOBS, which ran /on/ the R-Pi and installed OS images
    somewhat "live". Most of the more obscure images have to be obtained separately, and Imager will then write them to the card.

    pre-installed in the default profile. The thing is that I've just created a >second profile ("profile 1"), and see that it doesn't have the adblocker.


    Things like ad blockers are commonly third party plug-ins and are installed on a per-user (or perhaps profile if using multiple profiles with
    one user login) basis.

    How do I activate the already existing adblocker from the default profile >into this, the second one ?

    If it doesn't show up under Settings/Extensions you will probably have to use the "search" bar to locate the particular blocker in use. Using VNC
    to my small web-server R-Pi [I don't have a desktop running on the regular experiment R-Pi, just SSH] I see that its Chromium browser appears to have "uBlock Origins" installed. Note that searching for extensions likely means
    you will need a full Internet access from the R-Pi.

    I don't think you're just going to be able to copy it from one profile to another -- they seem to be saved in randomly generated directory names (which are probably linked via some database to the extension)... cf:

    md_admin@microdiversity:~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions$ ls -l
    total 12
    drwx------ 3 md_admin md_admin 4096 Oct 14 2020 aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal
    drwx------ 4 md_admin md_admin 4096 Sep 18 12:38 cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
    drwx------ 3 md_admin md_admin 4096 Sep 18 12:38 pkedcjkdefgpdelpbcmbmeomcjbeemfm

    I believe Default is the profile name.



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