Reviews for uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
16,512 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyvern, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14641091, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13336498, 5 years agoBlocks lots of things, configurable (maybe too much :p), very rewarding. The recent downvotes about additional permissions to acces IP and hostname are just bad wording on the Firefox permission popup, and there's already a Firefox bug open about this, see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Permissions#access-ip-address-and-hostname-information . So plese stop downvoting this excellent softawre for no real reason.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rakumaru, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mbnoimi, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by miroslav, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15697338, 5 years agoZoomerBoomer: "Originally this review was one star after getting the "Access IP address and hostname information" notice with the latest update. However, I was not fully informed of what this meant nor educated on how the WebExtension JavaScript API is laid out.
According to the developer and my own research, uBlock Origin has no access to YOUR IP address. The extension is asking for permission to access the IP address of the website/server you are trying to connect to. The reason why you may have seen or may now see the "Access IP address and hostname information" notice is because, IRONICALLY, uBlock Origin required more information from the servers being accessed in order to block trackers which had found a technique to bypass the filters/rules that uBlock uses. In order to do so, this was only possible by allowing the extension to access server-side DNS information, which is what triggered the "Access IP address and hostname information" notice.
So, be rest assured that this extension has not sold itself to the devil! We still have a reliable extension being developed by those with our best intentions in mind.
Please see the links below if you would like to look into this further.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Permissions#access-ip-address-and-hostname-information
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780" - Rated 5 out of 5by Jefferson Vital, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14021760, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lord_Dracon, 5 years agoDe longe e com folga o melhor bloqueador de conteúdo já criado para navegadores.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mv, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15696126, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jakub, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Askeyne, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by soorena, 5 years agoI've been using this extension for a long time after switching from the OG Adblock Plus issues and honestly there is nothing to complain about. It works like it says and if you're worried about the permission asking for your IP, it is to stop a way to sneak around your rules. This new version of uBlock "uncloaks" the request to bg.example.com and discovers that it's actually example.badguys.com. This is why it needs the dns permission, which is what that warning is about.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberdemon, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15695273, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vds, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13858576, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tuxayo, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Juraj Mäsiar, 5 years agoThanks for staying up-to date against new tracking/ads techniques!
- Rated 5 out of 5by dev, 5 years ago