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• Info:
  • Source (for developers)
  • uBlock Origin Core (Node.js)
  • About Safari, Canary, Tor and Kiwi support
  • About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"
• The toolbar icon
• The popup user interface
  • The per-site switches
• The context menu
• Dashboard
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      • Advanced settings
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  • Medium mode (optimal for advanced users)
  • Hard mode
  • Nightmare mode
• Strict blocking
  • Badware risks
• Few words about re-design of uBO's user interface
• Reference answers to various topics seen in the wild
• Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine
  • Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine: details
  • Does uBlock Origin block ads or just hide them?
  • Doesn't uBlock Origin add overhead to page load?
  • About "Why uBlock Origin works so much better than Pi‑hole does?"
• uBlock's blocking and protection effectiveness:
  • uBlock and others: Blocking ads, trackers, malwares
  • About "This other extension reports more stuff blocked!"
  • About "uBlock is inferior in capabilities as a result of being lighter on the browser"
  • Does uBlock protect against fingerprinting?
  • Does uBlock have parental control or password protection?
• uBlock's resource usage and efficiency:
  • Memory footprint: what happens inside uBlock after installation
  • uBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
  • Counterpoint: Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB RAM and|or a quad core CPU
  • Debunking "uBlock Origin is less efficient than Adguard" claims
  • Myth: uBlock consumes over 80MB
  • Myth: uBlock is just slightly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus
  • Myth: uBlock consumes several or several dozen GB of RAM
  • Various videos showing side by side comparison of the load speed of complex sites
  • Own memory usage: benchmarks over time
  • Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time
  • Can uBO crash a browser?
• Tools, tests
• Deploying uBlock Origin
• Proposal for integration/unit testing
• uBlock Origin Core (Node.js):
  • Split out uBO core functionality into separate module
• Troubleshooting:
  • Privileged Pages
  • Software known to have uninstalled uBlock Origin
  • The removed element reappears when you reload the page
  • Read carefully if using uBO/webext on legacy Firefox
• Good external guides:
  • How to use uBlock Origin advanced user mode tutorial ↗︎
  • Firefox: uBlock Origin – Firefox-Kompendium Teil2 ↗︎
  • Beginners Cheat Sheet - "Syntax Meanings That Are Actually Human Readable" ↗︎
• Scientific papers

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