gorhilluBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
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uBlock (JavaScript) — uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
You want the most effective and lightest content blocker and are willing to use Firefox for the full version.
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The content blocker that other content blockers are measured against. Lower memory and CPU use than the alternatives, a filter engine that is genuinely more efficient rather than marketed as such, and — the part that matters most — no acceptable-ads programme and no funding from the advertisers it blocks. GPL-3.0, and the maintainer has consistently refused donations to keep it that way. The tradeoff is now a platform problem, not a code problem: Chrome's Manifest V3 limits what extensions can do, and the full version runs properly on Firefox while Chrome users get a reduced Lite build. If blocking quality is the priority, that pushes you toward Firefox.
You want the most effective and lightest content blocker and are willing to use Firefox for the full version.
You are committed to Chrome and expect full functionality — Manifest V3 caps what you can get there.
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