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Comment by totetsu

23 days ago

uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.

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matheusmoreira  23 days ago

Agree. The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point, like popup blockers.

  • raffael_de  23 days ago

    I personally consider uBlock Origin as an Internet infrastructure component. I have no ... _no_ idea whatsoever how some people use the Internet without it.

  • anonymousiam  23 days ago

    In addition to uBlock Origin, I also have a few piholes (two locations), and I use NoScript as well. It's nice to have multiple layers of defense.

  • riffraff  23 days ago

    it _is_ a browser feature for e.g. brave, vivaldi and (experimental, afair) firefox.

    Popup blockers were also a differentiator, once.

    • eloisant  23 days ago

      The difference is that the biggest popup offender was not the same company behind the browser everyone uses...

      Just imagine if Netscape and MS made all their money from popups at the time.

  • UltraSane  22 days ago

    You are 100% correct and if uBlock Origin didn't exist I would dedicate my life to creating it.

NoMoreNicksLeft  23 days ago

It's quite possible that we're just not meant to view the web. Those companies that even maintain websites might intend for us to really view things on their phone app. The garbage you see on the website is then not just some parasitic draining of your spiritual health, but a disincentive designed to convince you to stop using the web altogether.

nolist_policy  23 days ago

uBlock Origin Lite with MV3 works perfectly fine on Chrome. I don't notice a difference to the classic uBlock Origin, it even has a element zapper nowadays.

  • tyingq  21 days ago

    It will work fine until Google and others stomp out all easy paths to smart, heuristic based ad blockers.

    The ad folks don't work around ubo lite now, because they understand it drives people to ubo actual.

    Once that option is not really reasonable for anybody not highly technical... That's when the fun begins.