The quiet part which none of us are saying out loud (bec. we love UBO) is that it's insane to allow extensions to have that much power.
uBlock Origin is obv a great great extension and I'm considering switching to FF just for that one extension, but consider what some newfangled AI extension developed by a random dude can do to the webpage you're viewing - anything UBO can do! So I think they have a decent case but I wish there was a carveout for UBO
Performance. For faster page loads.
uBlock Origin Lite still blocks ads on Chrome, but it's faster than uBlock Origin.
I don't expect Google's ad revenue has changed meaningfully at all, assuming people switch to uBlock Origin Lite.
The difference is negligible: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1792648742752981086 (uBOL appears as adblox).
It blocks less ads, it's not surprising that it's faster.
I thought the browser would be faster when blocking more ads, not fewer ads.
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Funny thing is: It’s to prepare for when Chrome is spun off from Google, due to increasing US government pressure.
See: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/08/new-doj-proposal-still-cal...
The quiet part which none of us are saying out loud (bec. we love UBO) is that it's insane to allow extensions to have that much power.
uBlock Origin is obv a great great extension and I'm considering switching to FF just for that one extension, but consider what some newfangled AI extension developed by a random dude can do to the webpage you're viewing - anything UBO can do! So I think they have a decent case but I wish there was a carveout for UBO
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