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Can someone help me understand the possible negative impact of running ublock? Eg do some sites not work unless you disable it, etc? If so how do you go all-in
by subpixel 5y ago
Can someone help me understand the possible negative impact of running ublock? Eg do some sites not work unless you disable it, etc? If so how do you go all-in on ublock without undue frustration?
- Synaesthesia 5y agoOne possible negative impact is being culturally out of touch due to not seeing ads. Otherwise I can't think of a negative. It's never broken a site for me but if it does you can just disable it from the toolbar.
- michaelbuckbee 5y agoMost "sites" work entirely fine with uBlock. Sometimes there will be an issue with form filling and web-apps with built in tracking (via mixpanel or something) will break, but it's a seconds worth of effort to disable it on a particular site. If you run into repeated problems you can set permanent rules allowing certain domains. Overall it's a very minor hassle in the scheme of things.
- Sebb767 5y agoI browse a lot and I'm an uBlock user for many years now. I'm even using more strict settings than the default. Yet I've only encountered a broken page once. It's really a non-issue.
- AlfeG 5y agoHaven't seen any issues for years, with some exceptions. Anecdotally - I've visit only few sites that were totally blocking their work, all of them were piracy related sites.