Take a look at the following table that comes from the “uBlock Dashboard”, i.e. uBlock Origin doesn’t just protect you using a single list of known ‘bad’ sites/domains. This is a major win for this tool already in my mind compared to other blockers. In my experience so far, they’ve done a stunning job compared to other tools which really bog down your browser experience with unexplained intermittent pauses, “not responding” freezes of the browser, HTML frame rendering that takes forever, etc. The creators tout uBlock Origin to be optimized to not impact the user experience.

UBlock Origin, simply put, is a highly efficient browser filter that is both light on CPU usage & extremely extensible. UBlock Origin Adblocking, Privacy-shielding add-on for Microsoft Edge Heard of AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, or any number of ad blockers, privacy shields, and other such add-ons for browsers?Ī fellow named Nik Rolls has ported an open source add-in to Microsoft Edge called “ uBlock Origin” that is somewhat of a lesser known tool to consumers but is highly respected in the technical community.

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