UBlock Origin Add-on for Firefox, Chrome & Safari

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:55 pm

Steve Gibson is planing on discussing this in detail this week on his podcast, but he mentioned it last week and I'm giving it a try. So far liking it.

It's basically a web filter which uses several malicious site lists and the very popular EasyList which blocks most advertising and tracking URLs. I use EasyList on my Surface tablets - it can be added to the Tracking Protection lists in Internet Explorer.

End result is a much safer and faster browsing experience. You're not only preventing ads from loading, but you're also blocking scripts from tracking sites that slow down page loading.

I'm using it to replace NoScript. NoScript was always very hard to curate, and it's almost impossible now that many sites use randomly generated per-session links to cloud servers for content.

Really easy to use. The default settings will do the job out of the box, although you CAN get fancy if you want. You can create your own block lists, and whitelists.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... ck-origin/

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:57 pm

Steve Gibson explains UBlock Origin in detail, and explains how to use it's advanced features on the last Security Now Podcast.

I have it cued up to the point where he starts discussing it at 01:22

https://youtu.be/dB9zKOJJYaI?t=1h21m49s

Losbot · Post by **Losbot** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:59 pm

Grabbed it from Firefox's add-ons page. I'll play with it.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:09 pm

Been using it for a couple of weeks, and I REALLY like it.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:19 pm

There's a version for Firefox for Android! AWESOME!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/androi ... pandcoming

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:55 pm

What is the difference between that and Adblock? I'm also using Ghostery which blocks trackers.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:22 pm

I think UBlock is better than Adblock, but they both use the EasyList blocking list. UBlock also uses blocking lists for malicious URLs and gives you much finer control.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:25 am

Adblock sells out...

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015 ... -their-ads

I'm going to dump Adblock in favor of Ublock

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 6:41 am

Be aware that there's a UBlock and UBlock Origin (I posted a link to the first one by accident above). UBlock Origin is what I use. They are forks of the same project.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... ck-origin/