diff --git "a/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" "b/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" index 34aee00..91c6958 100644 --- "a/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" +++ "b/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ There is nothing wrong with preferring ABP to uBlock Origin (uBO). There is howe This is my reference answer to such claims. -uBlock Origin (uBO) is lighter on the browser because of many choices which were made regarding how the filtering engine is designed internally. A coarse enumeration of these choices are: +uBO is lighter on the browser because of many choices which were made regarding how the filtering engine is designed internally. A coarse enumeration of these choices are: - lean in-memory filter representation - plain string comparisons instead of regular expressions wherever possible - a majority of network filters can be reduced to plain string comparison, and this is what uBO does internally for these filters, whereas Adblock Plus (ABP) converts _all_ network filters into regular expressions.