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WawaFinlast Tuesday at 3:44 PM6 repliesview on HN

I've been using Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite and not even once I found a case when this version of uBlock was behaving differently (as less efficient) than the "full" uBlock Origin

Maybe I'm just lucky, but even this argument is quite ... meh


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zamadatixlast Tuesday at 5:09 PM

I've found it a bit like "what car did you drive in to work with today" in that any typical current and working car is not going to be a stark difference to a high end car in terms of how fast you get there... but you'd definitely notice a piece of crap with a donut, broken heating, and screeching brakes causing you problems if that's what you were comparing instead.

I.e. I can count the number of times I said "wow, uBO Lite didn't make this site usable but loading up Firefox with uBO and it worked fine" on one hand. At the same time, if I ever look and compare how much is actually getting blocked, uBO is definitely blocking way more. Doing a side by side compare of dozens of sites it becomes easier to see minor differences I wouldn't otherwise have noted, but may not have mattered as much.

rpdillonlast Tuesday at 5:35 PM

I commented about this a few weeks ago here about this, but essentially: v2 allows you to block things you can't see, but you still probably don't want, like folks hiding cloud analytics behind CNAME cloaking to allow it to appear as a first-party site rather than Google Analytics, for example.

You won't "feel" this in your day-to-day browsing, but if you're concerned about your data being collected, v2 matters.

0x3flast Tuesday at 4:40 PM

Does it not still suck at blocking YouTube video ads? As in, you get a delay before videos start playing.

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sunaookamilast Tuesday at 5:05 PM

There are a lot more Manifest V2 only extensions than only Adblockers.

mkozlowslast Tuesday at 8:01 PM

How's that work for you on Android? Firefox on Android with uBlock is the huge win.

IshKebablast Tuesday at 4:55 PM

Doesn't work for Prime Video ads. Tbh I don't mind that too much.