From 8eb446d0905c38485ef29aa54dd904ef8346853b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: q1800 <95879668+q1800@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:53:24 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Implement uBO naming convention --- ...pabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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.