How to get absolutely everything to work in Chrome (including company devices with strict security)

hello fellow netizens.

ive found a way to get ALL M2 extensions to work on M3, including all adblockers and deprecated handy tools (imagus and bypass paywalls being one of them).

and yes, it even works on youtube and twitch *gasp*! 100% tested as of today.

and yes, im aware im verbose and i could have let GPT tighten this wall of text, but please bare with me.

now for the workaround to get things downloaded on company or admin controlled devices:

• for those who are stuck at work with tightened security, as long as you have access to developer mode in Chrome, youre good. chrome and most company rules dont allow downloading files that pertain to M2 based extensions or anything that they deem sus. chrome proactively scans these files, compressed or not, and intercepts them if your company set it up this way.
• heres the trick: download the .crx or complete extension via github (softonic is good, majorgeeks just redirects to the store, here is an example for ublock origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock) on a private desktop device. now, ZIP the files (for maximum compatibility, as you wont have access to install even portable versions of Winrar etc. on most company desktops),
• then rename the file to xyz.gif. then, compress the file again, preferably 7z (this is also compatible with windows) and change the extension again to whatever you like but images work best somehow. repeat this process a couple of times, and keep changing the extension. then upload it to the cloud and download it on your company device. this should work, and you can unpack and sideload the whole thing into Chrome through the dev mode install package option.
• the alternative is just put it on a USB device and copy/paste it to a local drive like c: if possible
• if this fails somehow, you could try to put a password protection when compressing, this makes scanning the files impossible but executables are intercepted either way so make sure you .gif or .jpg that sucker.

google is obviously aware of this workaround but knowing google, as long as its a huge pain in the ass for normies aka the workaround is obfuscated enough, they will not prioritize hotfixing this. please for the love of all things holy and unholy alike -- dont share the detailed info from my DMs publicly.

for obvious reasons im not going to post the full thing here nor anywhere else so DM me if youre curious.

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