![]() In July 2018, was acquired by AdBlock and resumed development. In response, uBlock's founder Raymond Hill stated that "the donations sought by are not benefiting any of those who contributed most to create uBlock Origin." The development of uBlock stopped in August 2015 but there were sporadic updates from January 2017. Aljoudi created to host and promote uBlock and to request donations. Since October 2017, uBlock Origin has been completely separated from Aljoudi's uBlock. I will keep maintaining my version (and share with whoever care to use it) because it guarantees the tool will match what I want out of it." Hill created his own fork and renamed it uBlock Origin on April 6. It stopped being a hobby when it felt more and more like a tedious job. "These projects are to me, not full time job. On April 3, 2015, Hill transferred the uBlock project to Chris Aljoudi due to frustrations with dealing with requests as the project's popularity increased. The report attributed the growth to the desire of users for pure blockers, outside the " acceptable ads" program operated by Adblock Plus. ![]() Ī joint Sourcepoint and comScore survey reported an 833% growth from November 2014 to August 2015, the strongest growth among adblockers listed. First released in June 2014 as a Chrome and Opera extension, in 2015 the extension became available in other browsers. uBlock was developed by Raymond Hill to use community-maintained block lists, while adding features and raising the code quality to release standards. ![]() Development started by forking from the codebase of HTTP Switchboard along with another blocking extension called uMatrix, designed for advanced users. UBlock was initially named "μBlock" but the name was later changed to "uBlock" to avoid confusion as to how the Greek letter μ (Mu/Micro) in "μBlock" should be pronounced. UBlock Origin is actively developed and maintained by its creator and lead developer Raymond Hill. uBlock Origin's stated purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own (content-filtering) choices. uBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites and is reported to be much less memory-intensive than other extensions with similar functionality. The extension is available for Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Pale Moon, as well as versions of Safari prior to 13. IMHO, all they will do is make a fork famous, probably Brave has the most momentum.UBlock Origin ( / ˈ j uː b l ɒ k/ " YOO-block" ) (previously uBlock and originally μBlock) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking. The demand is too great for this to carry any weight. So in order for me, Pale Moon, in combination with a portable, feature freeze Chrome/Edge. I will not, under any circumstances, watch Youtube with ads. If indeed this gutting happens and Chrome and Edge cut off updates, I will probably pihole my network and just stop updating. I personally moved to Pale Moon, it's safe, but not the best compatibility out there and has a bit of a learning curve (forked off Firefox 3.5 UI, so more customizable, but most addons are legacy). They made all other changes in lockstep with Chrome and I'm afraid that all you're getting is a bit of time at the cost of a long migration process. ![]() Mozilla is telemetrying my pants size, pinky primise not to sell it, while hobbling their browser by making old extensions not work, redoing the UI and generally aping Chrome to the point that they are indistinguishable. I moved off recently because they are really, really not that good at it. Specially when said feature could save your ass if you accidentally clicked something you didn't want to download. You tell me if a feature being changed permanently (it is not toggable unless you mess with the ever 'will-be-removed-by-next-version' about:config settings) can be justified by an argument that uses the word "usually" in two sentences back to back. Having to click a second time for a download to start is usually unnecessary. It is a potential security risk:įirefox no longer shows the dialog by default because downloads are usually intentional. It is not "just" a matter of "you will get used to it". A recent update (FF 98) changed dramatically how files downloaded are handled. Sadly firefox has its head up its own ass and listen to zero feedback when it comes to their "it isn't broken, but we fixed it regardless" updates.
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