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Anyone here prefer uBlock over UBlock Origin? I tried both and stuck with Origin since something like this should be relatively easy to reach "feature complete" status, thus go into pure maintenance mode. Either are a big step up from ABP.



If you compare their repo activity, it seems to suggest that the actual development happens at origin.

Origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors

Nonorigin: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/graphs/contributors


uBlock Origin does a more thorough job at blocking network connections [1] compared to uBlock since the former disables prefetching and the latter doesn't. [2] uBlock is also missing the per-site switches and strict domain blocking features from Origin. [3]

Personally I can't see any reason to use uBlock over uBlock Origin.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.8.2

[2] https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.5.0

[3] https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/issues/1306




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