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Reference description of uBO in various extensions stores
uBlock Origin is an efficient and powerful content blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint, and yet can load and enforce tens of thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there.
Usage: The big power button in the popup panel is to permanently disable/enable uBlock Origin for the CURRENT web site.
Flexible, it's more than an "ad blocker": it can also read and create filters from hosts files, and is also equipped to deal with anti-content blockers which purpose is to force you to disable your blocker.
Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced:
- uBlock Origin's own filter lists
- EasyList, EasyPrivacy
- Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list
- Online Malicious URL Blocklist
More filter lists are available for you to select if you wish, though be aware that selecting extra filter lists on top of the default ones may lead to higher likelihood of web site breakage -- especially those lists which are normally used as hosts file.
Free, open source with public license (GPLv3), for users by users.
If ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.
Documentation: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin
Project changelog: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
Contributors @ GitHub: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors
Contributors @ Crowdin: https://crowdin.net/project/ublock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
- Wiki home
- About the Wiki documentation
- Permissions
- Privacy policy
- Info:
- The toolbar icon
- The popup user interface
- The context menu
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Dashboard
- Settings pane
- Filter lists pane
- My filters pane
- My rules pane
- Trusted sites pane
- Keyboard shortcuts
- The logger
- Element picker
- Element zapper
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Blocking mode
- Very easy mode
- Easy mode (default)
- Medium mode (optimal for advanced users)
- Hard mode
- Nightmare mode
- Strict blocking
- Few words about re-design of uBO's user interface
- Reference answers to various topics seen in the wild
- Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine
- uBlock's blocking and protection effectiveness:
- uBlock's resource usage and efficiency:
- Memory footprint: what happens inside uBlock after installation
- uBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
- Counterpoint: Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB RAM and|or a quad core CPU
- Debunking "uBlock Origin is less efficient than Adguard" claims
- Myth: uBlock consumes over 80MB
- Myth: uBlock is just slightly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus
- Myth: uBlock consumes several or several dozen GB of RAM
- Various videos showing side by side comparison of the load speed of complex sites
- Own memory usage: benchmarks over time
- Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time
- Can uBO crash a browser?
- Tools, tests
- Deploying uBlock Origin
- Proposal for integration/unit testing
- uBlock Origin Core (Node.js):
- Troubleshooting:
- Good external guides:
- Scientific papers