> You can still find the ad blocker extension here. However, you will not be able to run it. Chrome made changes so that extensions cannot be side-loaded without an enterprise profile.

You can currently sideload extensions in Chrome by turning on Developer Mode, right?

Which I think lasts only until you restart the browser? Hardly a good user experience..

Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead? Developer Mode is active forever, and no Google-centric integrations.

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium