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I'm also curious about this. A couple years back, I switched from 'AdBlock Plus' to 'uBlock Origin' and the difference was night and day (it blocked SO many more ads).

I've been out of the game for awhile, so I'm wondering what beats uBlock nowadays... Any recommendations?




What you noticed was not really a meaningful difference between the two extensions, but just a difference in the default ruleset subscriptions—which you can manage independently.


> not really a meaningful difference between the two extensions

That is incorrect.

uBlock Origin has filter syntax not found in ABP[1], so there will be a meaningful difference when it comes to what is blocked or not, and also there is a difference due to policy[2].

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5zk8y/why-your-ad-blocke...


uBlock Origin is still in the game!


Hardly anyone. Still going strong. The first add-on I'd recommend.




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