Damn

This shit is a serious deal breaker for me.

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I was browsing this thread in /r/GrandTheftAutoV on my Surface Pro 2. I was trying to scroll up, but I had too much of my thumb on the page and it resulted in rapid right clicks. Suddenly, two small bacon strips, the size of an emoticon come flying and spinning across my screen, entering from the top left and exiting at the bottom right. What just happened? I can't reproduce it :(

EDIT: So apparently this has been upvoted to the top of /r/chrome. Well shit.

Thanks to Erik Parker on Youtube for finding the malware

Internet without Ublock is just unwatchable. The ads are scummy, scammy, everywhere and now that's it's no longer supported I have no reason to stay. Have a good one folks!

So today I'll try to download chrome using Microsoft EDGE browser and what they try to force to i don't download it and stay with their browser.

May these greedy bastard burn in hell. Everything they do has made the internet worse, to the point that the internet is unusable without an add blocker, all to promote shit I cant even afford or AI slop mobile games. If they are willing to go this far I know that they do not intend to change and at this point I don't really care.

I installed firefox and took about an hour to set everything up even better than I had it on chrome. Even if i could not do that I would sooner pay for a premium addblocker than give Google/Youtube any money.

Get the old UI Design back:

chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md

Set to: Normal

Get the New Tab Thumbnails Back:

chrome://flags/#use-google-local-ntp

Set to: Enabled

If your New Tab Thumbnails turn from square Previews to round Icons:

chrome://flags/#ntp-icons
Set to: Disabled

chrome://flags/#ntp-ui-md
Set to: Disabled

by request of /u/JackVS1 & others - further steps of 'un-fucking', transplated from the comment Thread to the OP:

Fixing Omnibox (aka. Search-/Address-Bar) behavior & look

Less Whitespace in the Suggestions:

chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-vertical-margin

Set to: Disabled

Format as 'URL - Website Title' instead of 'Website Title - URL':

chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-swap-title-and-url

Set to: Disabled

Show complete URLs including http:// - https:// - www. etc.

chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

Set to: Disabled

Don't want Favicons in the Suggestion Box:

chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-show-suggestion-favicons

Set to: Disabled

Finally, if you're of the Mindset 'who knows when these flags will be removed?' or 'I'd rather use an old browser, than a shitty looking one!'
Here i present to you the last Chromium 68 build for Windows:
Chromium v68.0.3440.106 r561733 (stable) Win32
Chromium v68.0.3440.106 r561733 (stable) Win64

EDIT (2018-12-05):

Google finally did it, they removed the flags from Chrome 71, the old interface is officially dead.
Here, the very last and most up-to-date Version to still include it:
Chromium v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win32
Chromium v70.0.3538.110-r587811-win64

You may love Chrome, but you have to agree that during these past few years chrome has mistreated us, limiting what we can or we cannot do with OUR browser.

Randomly changing its interface, limiting our customization, etc.

I've stayed with chrome during all of those painful times since it's launch. And with forcing manifest V3, i've reached the point where it's just more convenient for me to just change browser, so this is my last post using chrome.

I just wanted to express my pain for losing the app that i've been using since 2008 and i cannot longer recognice or love, and i'm certain some of you are in the same situation.

The promises of freedom and customization it brought on its release, and the thing it has become.

Congratulatios, google, you made the planets of the apes ending real.