![]() Before uBo, ads and tracking are horrific in an internet that has become a useless collage of ad fueled, ugly distraction vying for eyeballs. Because of his critical tool, the internet has become enjoyable again. There is a reasonable consensus that content blockers are an important method to help protect assets from malware infection.īut personally, I tip my hat to Raymond Hill. But an important factor that also plays into the calculus of block or not is the threat of getting infected with malware delivered via ad networks, which happens allot and comes in waves. I don’t trust Moz to protect me from anyting, not when I see their browser trying to hit their assets several times a second (ahem, dnscrypt-proxy easily fixes this). Like mentioned, tracking is a large factor. I seem to remember some past rift with ABP which prompted me to switch to UBO and it’s all murky past now… which is about the level of attention I think privacy protection SHOULD have: Set and forget. I usually use Brave, but have no particular allegiance – I switch browsers for web development all the time and tend to stick with whatever was convenient last.Īll of the browsers I use (aside from Brave where it’s “built in”) have UBO installed anyway (predating the pi-hole). 4) It seems their teenage friends prefer MY wifi to their own home connections – it’s only “adequately” fast (175mbps in an area where 1gbps is available) but they have also remarked on not seeing adverts, and we’ve become the top hangout (which is sh*t for your grocery budget). 3) They notice when they’re _not_ behind the pi-hole how many ads they get thrown at them, which makes a dad feel warm and fuzzy. 2) I don’t have to preach tech/platform choice at my wife & kids anymore, which is nice as there are other things to argue about. Since, many versions ago, there was rumble of browsers limiting/bypassing blocker ad ons, or ad ons making secret exceptions… I instituted a pi-hole as dns on my lan using an old Pi3b.Īfter that, I notice 1) I don’t particularly care about browsers and blockers, though I could. Hill, who never accepted donations or compensation for his development work, is another core reason why the extension is as popular as it is right now. Many users hold uBlock Origin in high regard because of its memory and CPU effectiveness. Users may add more lists, for instance to deal with annoyances on the Internet. The extension blocks more advertisement but also trackers, miners, popups, malicious URLs and more by default. Hill calls uBlock Origin a "wide-spectrum content blocker" instead of an ad blocker. The Firefox version of uBlock Origin is considered the version that offers the best protection, as it supports protection against CNAME tracking, which the Chrome versions do not offer. To name a few improvements: blocking WebRTC from leaking IP addresses, removing elements permanently from webpages, blocking JavaScript by default, and addressing new tracking methods, such as CNAME tracking, Hill improved the extension over the years, adding features and improvements to it on a regular basis. The extension was created after Hill left the uBlock project that he created. ![]() The uBlock Origin extension was first published on Mozilla's extensions store in April 2015 by its creator Raymond Hill, known as gorhill online. As far as the number of reviews is concerned: uBlock Origin received more than 13200 reviews, thousands more than Adblock Plus' 8500 reviews at the time of writing. The average rating is 4.8 out of 5 on the Mozilla add-ons store, while Adblock Plus has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. ![]() UBlock Origin beats Adblock Plus in other metrics as well. If the trend continues, the gap between the two ad blockers will widen in the coming months and years. Mozilla reports that uBlock Origin crossed the 5.5 million users mark while Adblock Plus is sitting at 5.47 million users at the time of writing. Now, uBlock Origin has surpassed Adblock Plus on the Firefox add-ons store, making it the number one Firefox extension in regards to user numbers. ![]()
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