UBlock Origin uses filter lists maintained by volunteers, this is how the plugin detects requests to ad servers, and blocks them before a web page is loaded. These advanced features make other add-ons like noScript, Privacy Badger, and the like, redundant. Besides you can also use it to manually block content on websites, using the Element Picker. What that means is that it can be used to block Javascript from running, which further reduces the amount of trackers that try to obtain your personal data. You can avoid video ads with uBlock Origin, and you don’t even need to set it up to do this, the extension blocks all these ads right out of the box.īut all things said, uBlock Origin is more than an ad-blocker, it is a spectrum wide content blocker. These can ruin the experience, sometimes can be really loud or just plain annoying or irrelevant. If you watch videos on YouTube, you may have noticed that some of them start with an ad, that is usually skippable after a certain amount of seconds. You don't even need a separate pop up blocker for Chrome. uBlock Origin gives you a cleaner version of web pages, that is devoid of distractions, trackers and malicious scripts, without breaking the site. Just imagine how nice the page could look, if there weren’t any of these annoyances. Many good articles often look terrible, because the site placed an ad after every paragraph or on the sides. uBlock Origin blocks the ads automatically, allowing a greater control over your privacy. Some web services have come under scrutiny for harvesting user data, and even selling them to third-parties. This can be annoying to see, and your browsing habits are also tracked by the ad server. So if you searched about cars or televisions, you will see ad banners about these on many sites that you visit. to find what you like, products you may be interested in, to display advertisements that are relevant to your online activity, aka targeted ads. When you visit a web page or perform a search query, your browser stores some information about it in the form of a cookie.

You may have to toggle the add-on, or purge the cache if web pages aren’t rendering properly, e.g.Does not prevent affiliate URLs from tracking you.Slightly complex interface compared to AdGuard.

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