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uBlock origin advanced mode is very similar to uMatrix

by throwaway2048 6y ago

srtjstjsj 6y ago
What's the difference?
Arnavion 6y ago
AFAICT uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate between the kinds of requests that can be filtered, so filtering is only per domain and filters every kind of request for the domain equally. uM on the other hand differentiates between scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames, and allows you to filter them individually. But most importantly, uM also allows you to filter cookies with the same fidelity, which is the number one thing I would miss if I had to rely solely on uBO, because it means I can default to blocking even first-party cookies from sites I don't want leaving cookies on my machine. FF by itself gets close, by letting me set a policy that says "block all cookies except for cookies from these domains", but that doesn't let me filter which site is allowed to access those cookies. Frankly, I find uBO redundant if one has uM installed but for two things: uBO can use the usual content-blocker lists (I personally don't need them because my router's DNS server does filtering using those same lists already, but it's useful for people without such a setup), and uBO can block remote fonts whereas uM can't. It would be great if uM's kind-based filtering was merged into uBO and remote fonts were kept as just another kind of request that can be filtered, but I don't know what gorhill plans to do.
- eikenberry 6y ago
  Check out "Cookie AutoDelete" for cookie management. It automatically deletes all cookies (not whitelisted) when you close a website. I've used it for a while and it is pretty nice. https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
- rasz 6y ago
  > uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate ....scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames $script $image $subdocument $stylesheet $first-party $third-party $xmlhttprequest $csp $inline-script $inline-font ... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
  - Arnavion 6y ago
    Good to know. So it's supported for static filters and not for dynamic filters, which is presumably why it isn't exposed through the UI like uM does. So it looks like the equivalent of this uM rule: github.com raw.githubusercontent.com xhr allow would be: @@raw.githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,xhr ... or something. (I have to spend some time RTFMing.) So then, like I said in my previous comment, it seems it would be the best of both worlds if gorhill took the UI from uM and put it in uBO.

uBlock origin advanced mode is very similar to uMatrix

What's the difference?

AFAICT uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate between the kinds of requests that can be filtered, so filtering is only per domain and filters every kind of request for the domain equally. uM on the other hand differentiates between scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames, and allows you to filter them individually. But most importantly, uM also allows you to filter cookies with the same fidelity, which is the number one thing I would miss if I had to rely solely on uBO, because it means I can default to blocking even first-party cookies from sites I don't want leaving cookies on my machine. FF by itself gets close, by letting me set a policy that says "block all cookies except for cookies from these domains", but that doesn't let me filter which site is allowed to access those cookies. Frankly, I find uBO redundant if one has uM installed but for two things: uBO can use the usual content-blocker lists (I personally don't need them because my router's DNS server does filtering using those same lists already, but it's useful for people without such a setup), and uBO can block remote fonts whereas uM can't. It would be great if uM's kind-based filtering was merged into uBO and remote fonts were kept as just another kind of request that can be filtered, but I don't know what gorhill plans to do.

eikenberry 6y ago
Check out "Cookie AutoDelete" for cookie management. It automatically deletes all cookies (not whitelisted) when you close a website. I've used it for a while and it is pretty nice. https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
rasz 6y ago
> uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate ....scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames $script $image $subdocument $stylesheet $first-party $third-party $xmlhttprequest $csp $inline-script $inline-font ... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
- Arnavion 6y ago
  Good to know. So it's supported for static filters and not for dynamic filters, which is presumably why it isn't exposed through the UI like uM does. So it looks like the equivalent of this uM rule: github.com raw.githubusercontent.com xhr allow would be: @@raw.githubusercontent.com^$domain=github.com,xhr ... or something. (I have to spend some time RTFMing.) So then, like I said in my previous comment, it seems it would be the best of both worlds if gorhill took the UI from uM and put it in uBO.