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The Web has become unusable without uMatrix.

• patrickbolle 9y ago
  "unusable" is a very extreme word for this.
  • bauerd 9y ago
    "Unusable for the privacy-aware" does the job
    • roryisok 9y ago
      "unpalatable for the privacy-aware"
    • rmsaksida 9y ago
      Privacy issues aside, it has a noticeable effect on battery life.
      • Mister_Snuggles 9y ago
        Not to mention performance and usability. I never bothered with uMatrix until I picked up a cheap computer to use while traveling. Firefox was borderline unusable without it.
  • Mister_Snuggles 9y ago
    Firefox on one of my older/slower computers was borderline unusable on some sites before I installed uMatrix.
  • Yetanfou 9y ago
    Not really, it is as unhealthy for your personal integrity as waste water is for your physical well-being. Both can be made palatable by filtering, neither of them should be used without treatment.
• Yetanfou 9y ago
  ...or regular uBlock Origin in 'expert mode': Check 'I am an advanced user' in the settings, then click on either 'requests blocked' or 'domains connected' in the drop-down to access dynamic filtering. Block everything third-party by default by clicking in the right side of the second column. Load a site with lots of third-party content, disable the block (by clicking in the middle of the third column, greying-out the block) for only those things which seem to be essential to show page content and you're done. While not as fine-grained as uMatrix, uBlock Origin generally is the quicker way to go from 'empty page' to 'only the content I want' on sites which, without blocking, are tracker-ridden dark-pattern hell-holes.