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I know, I love uMatrix, and was sad to leave it. I've migrated to uBlock Origin, but it isn't the same even with dynamic filtering window opened. With uMatrix I
by pavon 4y ago
I know, I love uMatrix, and was sad to leave it. I've migrated to uBlock Origin, but it isn't the same even with dynamic filtering window opened. With uMatrix I had been taking the approach of denying all third-party resources by default and selectively allowing just the ones I need, and after the move largely ended up abandoning this approach.
The different UI of uBO was part of this decision, but not the biggest factor. Over time it had gotten less and less workable even with uMatrix's great UI. I could no longer configure a site once and then expect it to work for any amount of time, as the rate at which new mandatory third-party dependencies were added to sites kept increasing. And I was visiting more websites as part of avoiding big sites like Amazon.
In addition, uBO's CNAME unmasking meant that many resources that were considered first party by uMatrix, are treated as third party by uBO. This added to the burden of whitelisting, but also got me thinking about how fuzzy the first party / third party distinction was and that it was increasingly a poor proxy variable for what I was really trying to block (trackers mostly, and also some annoyances).
I also use the Temporary Container extension in Firefox. In the end I decided that the default block lists of uBO combined with the isolation and discarding of persistent data provided by Temporary Containers was good enough for most browsing. I still use a whitelisting approach for my handful of permanent containers, and uBO's dynamic mode UI is good enough for that.