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I specifically emphasize on the home page of the project [1]: "uBlock Origin (or uBlock₀) is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker." It will repor
by gorhill 11y ago
I specifically emphasize on the home page of the project [1]:
"uBlock Origin (or uBlock₀) is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker."
It will report everything to the user -- including behind-the-scene network requests [2].
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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#philosophy https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#philosophy
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Behind-the-scene-network-requests https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Behind-the-scene-netw...
- nextos 11y agoSo this firefox feature is just a subset of what ublock does? BTW, thanks for ublock.
- nhf 11y agoIf I remember correctly from the presentation (I was at W2SP where the associated talk was given) there were unspecified performance benefits over having this outsourced to the plugin architecture. I can't download the paper right now for some reason, but I'm sure it's detailed in there.