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I think it's because uBlock Origin has a lot more users. uMatrix was always for power users.

• squarefoot 6y ago
  He probably could have saved time and resources by incorporating uMatrix most granular blocking functions into uBlock Origin, say as an "expert mode" users had to enable explicitly. I mean, many of us probably have both installed; since they do essentially the same things, although at different levels, merging some functionalities of the latter into the former doesn't seem that absurd to me. Anyway, big thanks to gorhill for putting great effort in software that today is absolutely necessary to surf the web, and that makes it even more sad to see uMatrix go.
  • wyclif 6y ago
    Can you explain the advantage of installing both uBlock Origin and uMatrix? I never tried that, thinking that there was too much functional overlap and guessing that I would have to check and uncheck numerous lists to keep one from stepping on the other. Or maybe I'm just lazy and didn't feel like diving deeply into how to make them play nice together.
    • boomboomsubban 6y ago
      They don't interfere with each other much, if something is broken 90% of the time it's uMatrix and 10% of the time it's both. From my understanding, uBlock Origin will stop a few things uMatrix misses, but mostly I already had uBlock set up and have never seen a reason to ditch it.