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> can't do "Block Elements" In uBO Lite, it's called "Create a custom filter" in the popup panel.

Best is to report the issue using the "Report an issue" in the popup panel while on Reddit site. There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the…

Reddit's sponsored posts are blocked by default in uBOL when using _optimal_ (default) or _complete_ mode.

I never transferred the extension in the Chrome store. The Chrome store extension has always been the one from the repository I control, and I've had full control of it since when …

Those "adblock test" sites misinform people, they should never be used as they lead people to make bad decisions regarding their choice of content blockers.[1] [1] https://bugzilla…

When trying to diagnose performance or memory issues with a browser, always start with the installed and enabled extensions.

> it claims to use zero CPU There is no claim of "zero CPU". The claim is that the service worker wakes up only when necessary -- it is designed to be suspended by default from the…

Those webpages used to "test" blockers are frowned upon, see: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1583581072197312512 There are many reasons that sort of online tools are not able to reli…

> Doctor Feng, or similar, though I can't find DirectorFeng: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbzzMQ1mNKjAaDwbELsVYcQ

When you enable "Developer mode" in the "Extensions" page of your browser, you can open the developer tools for the extension by clicking the "service worker" link, and from there …

It's working fine on Youtube in Optimal mode. If you have still issue, you will have to go through self-diagnosing steps[1] to rule out all the myriad other ways you suffer such is…

I randomly browsed the site with Firefox stable and I couldn't see any obvious malfunction. What exactly is not working? Is there a specific webpage where the malfunction can be se…

No competent content blocker tests "ten thousand regexp matches" for each request URL to match, this is not how it works. To simplify, and speaking from uBO's perspective, consider…

The extension in the Chrome Web Store (CWS) never changed hands. I just reverse-forked a GitHub repo, which was of no consequences to those who installed the extension from the CWS…

I see 156 distinct 3rd parties on my side if I disable the content blocker so as to let the second-, third- and nth-waves of JavaScript execute: https://imgur.com/a/lZbUqnQ

It's perfectly fine and valid to question the pile of JS code executing in Youtube webpages, but in this specific instance the performance issues are caused by ABP/AdBlock. The iss…

> no problems with AdBlock plus on FF Because it has not been updated to the problematic version, which is 5.17. In fact AdBlock on AMO is still 5.4.2, i.e. 13 versions behind late…

A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]: If there are well over 1,000 "here no…

> It isn’t “nothing else”, cosmetic rules can still be updated independently “over-the-air”. It's not just about cosmetic rules, it's also about DNR rules other than block/allow/al…

> one can learn about the no-review-fast-track that Chrome WebStore plans to implement next year. My understanding is that no-review-fast-track is only for extensions which changes…

For an extension to be entirely declarative, it must package all the scripts to inject anywhere, the scripting.registerContentScript API doesn't allow injecting code as string[1], …

This was the first commit, and the commit message is accurate about the technical limitations of this first version. If you want cosmetic filtering and other advanced filtering in …

> uBlock to intercept http requests before rendering the web page. And from my understanding this has always been supported in Firefox, but never in Chrome. The webRequest API does…

> I get a 3-5 sec lag on launch [0] as it prepares the browser to block ads. uBO is typically ready in a fraction of second, so "3-5 sec" is not normal. In Firefox all extensions s…

> rare minor annoyance of cosmetic filtering (which gorhill removed for political, not technical reasons) Please clarify. No political motivation went into uBO Lite. It supports co…