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comment by caminante · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Not really. 90% of users won't notice a difference. Here's the feature diff. [0] [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by caminante · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/releases uBlockOrigin “Lite” is a good(?) replacement afaict

comment by portaouflop · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

…sorry, its hard to search for an answer to this specific question Edit: Sorry the answer is here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by AJRF · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

The wiki outlines the differences. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by p_ing · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

…to each DNR implementation; no DNR implementation supports this capability at the time of writing. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by ffpip · 2025-03-09 · in The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

…to find most of the sites that have had anti-adblocking broken, it's a pretty small list: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/blob/main/chromium... Also note that some of those won't be related to anti-adblock and some sites may use…

comment by LiamPowell · 2025-03-06 · in uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage because many filters can't be converted into DNR…

comment by wruza · 2025-03-06 · in uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome

…functionality. There's a few rules that can't be ported but these don't apply to most sites: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... One massive upside is there's now a less comprehensive mode that doesn't allow the…

comment by LiamPowell · 2025-03-05 · in uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome

For anyone else like me that hasnt tried uBO lite wondering what features are missing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by muixoozie · 2025-03-03 · in About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

Here is the official FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... For some context, I currently have 393,405 network filters ＋ 385,476 cosmetic filters. "The current limit imposed by the various implementations is a…

comment by Technetium · 2025-03-01 · in Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

The creator of uBlock is again trying to make uBlock Origin Lite work in Safari. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52#issuecom... They might need some help, not much visible progress since it started.

comment by latexr · 2025-03-01 · in WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari

…MV3 due to fact that extensions are really service workers which can be suspended at any time. [1]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... [2]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by e2le · 2025-02-28 · in Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

FAQ to know the differences between uBO and uBOL: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by rippeltippel · 2025-02-24 · in uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

For Chrome/Edge you can use Manifest V3 content blocker "uBO Lite": https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/releases

comment by onnnon · 2025-02-24 · in uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

…cannot stop using a Chromium-based browser, uBlock Origin Lite might be good enough for you: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

comment by yorwba · 2024-12-22 · in UMatrix: "is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices"

…risk of burnout for its developers, ironically in part due to Mozilla being unnecessarily hostile: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418 - and while…

comment by btown · 2024-10-11 · in "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

You can't just call stuff you simply don't bother to look up "rumors". Read up here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by kristofferR · 2024-10-11 · in "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

…share compared to any other[3]. [1] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1748763311535948228 [2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... [3] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

comment by mossTechnician · 2024-10-03 · in Popular ad blocker uBlock Origin Lite pulled from Firefox store

…of your time to acertain that you agree our direction is the right one. Yours Sincerely The Idiots https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

comment by amiga386 · 2024-10-02 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…article didn't portray it correctly. For a better understanding have a look at the Github issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197 It was not an automated review, it was a manual review, poorly done. The author then…

comment by politelemon · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…fact that a review process exists might be reassuring, but the way they went about it surely isn’t. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

comment by latexr · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

> who is being hurt by this See Raymond’s comment five days ago: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197 Who is being hurt is Raymond Hill (their sanity / mental stability / desire to work on this popular extension); Firefox…

comment by latexr · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…hoops. And the process seems to involve pointless hoops even when the review is not rejected. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197

comment by jampekka · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…2024.9.22.986 has still not been approved." Doesn't sound like something I'd enjoy as a hobby. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197

comment by jampekka · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…ground up to be an efficient suspendable extension, thus a good match for Firefox for Android. [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

comment by AdmiralAsshat · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

…Origin's long-term stability as a project. The whole situation sounds decidedly unhealthy. 1: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco...

comment by Freak_NL · 2024-10-01 · in Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

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story by rpgbr · 2024-09-30 · 3 comments

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Gorhill to Stop Supporting uBlock Origin Lite Addon for Firefox

story by CHEF-KOCH · 2024-09-30 · 5 comments

Humm, no: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by Timshel · 2024-09-07 · in Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

Per uBO FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... > It's very possible that the sites you visit do not require any of the filtering capabilities specific to uBO, in which case you won't see a difference. The best…

comment by drivebycomment · 2024-08-15 · in Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

There's a FAQ that explains things: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... To me, the biggest issue is filter lists can only be updated when the extension updates and Google controls the update cadence. YouTube ad…

comment by eco · 2024-08-15 · in Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

…answer part of the question but there is some info on what's not supported in ubol lite vs origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by Timshel · 2024-08-12 · in Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

…than manifest2 version it is still much more capable than pihole or other dns based blockers. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

comment by TiredOfLife · 2024-08-12 · in Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

…lite, V2 vs v3/DNR. Has DNR improved what it offers in any marked way since initially "proposed". https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-08-02 · in About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"

…tps://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1123#is... And for watching Safari status ongoing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52

comment by runjake · 2024-06-10 · in macOS Sequoia Preview

…UI and seemingly zero configurable settings outside of three sliders. Edit: typos [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

comment by Springtime · 2024-05-31 · in Manifest V2 phase-out begins

…using it a couple of months ago instead of Ublock Origin, and still haven't seen any ads since. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

comment by 4ggr0 · 2024-05-29 · in AdFlush

…) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot…

comment by danShumway · 2024-01-28 · in Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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story by beeburrt · 2024-01-16 · 0 comments

…to register scripts * * * [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... [2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/tree/main/chromium... [3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/userS...…

comment by gorhill · 2023-12-02 · in Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

uBOL's FAQ entry: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... Edit: Chrome docs on the matter explaining the limitations (from sibling mlyle) https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/impro...

comment by bilkow · 2023-12-02 · in Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Sure, there's uBlock Origin Lite https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

comment by Pesthuf · 2023-11-23 · in Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

…thinks the differences are, the UBlock Origin Lite (UBlock Origin for MV3) page has a write-up: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by wzdd · 2023-11-23 · in Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

…are still many questions left. Edit: for a technical listing of what is not possible with v3 : https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

comment by Timshel · 2023-11-17 · in Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)

…Safari and (2) more capable than what Safari provides. You can track this uBlock Origin Lite issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52

comment by bad_user · 2023-10-01 · in Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

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story by osdril · 2023-09-08 · 3 comments

…few sites where the declarative approach is not enough, take a look at [3] for more details. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home [2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [3] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-bloc…

comment by akyuu · 2023-09-01 · in Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't

…features that need workarounds to be implemented. He's more strict to Lite than full version: - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17 - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/6#issuecomm...

comment by eipi10_hn · 2023-08-22 · in uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox

Ongoing discussion: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52

comment by tech234a · 2023-08-21 · in uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox