Reviews for uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
336 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17156146, 3 years agoThis Adblocker was alway awesome until recently. Somehow ads that were blocked before, are now everywhere. I block them, but they return after I refresh the page. That is unfortunate. Other adblockers are slowing down firefox...
- Rated 3 out of 5by Alejandro, 3 years agoMy experience has been by so great with this extension, but recenlty It started not blocking the adds on pages I visit most of the time. I believe it's due to the recent update 2 days ago.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 10206391, 3 years agoGood on most sites, but when you encounter a problem site, there is no way to report it other than the hugely obtuse Reddit.com, where you will find it impossible to either submit a problem or to understand HOW TO SUBMIT A PROBLEM unless you speak 'coder' language.
Utterly useless 'help' section, and the 'instructions' are about as useless. Oh, wait---there are no instructions.
*sigh* - Rated 3 out of 5by Totozang, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Eddie, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15193481, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by AmazingGabriel16, 3 years agoThe user experience is overall great, and the ad block part of the add-on is awesome, however the element picker needs major work. You are unable to revert changes properly, select individual changes to revert and unclear as to what has changed (added/removed) from the webpage when it loads in the cosmetic filter.
- Rated 3 out of 5by thatdamnredredhead, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Xaymar, 3 years agoIt works, or at least in part works. Some response codes from Servers, like 429, completely break this plugin - even if it is "turned off" with the big button. The only fix is to disable the addon.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Stefanie, 3 years agoDecent enough at what it does, but there is no easy way that I can find to allow ads on individual pages that demand it. Not overly intuitive either.
- Rated 3 out of 5by PlaceaPlate, 3 years agoToo many filters turned off by default. and an awfull GUI. but very nice!
- Rated 3 out of 5by eugene brennan, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14974637, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16876022, 3 years agoIt would get 5 stars, but it can't block Twitch ads.
- Rated 3 out of 5by skorphil, 3 years agoSeemd good but can't block FB ad's even after i subscribed to tons of lists including fb-related
- Rated 3 out of 5by gibson58, 3 years agoVery good add-on, but unfortunately lately it does not do one of its most important tasks. And that is to remove mid video ads in facebook videos.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kandi Hayes, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by boopu, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Onela, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Juvenal Castillo, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Prince, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16148634, 4 years agoDopo oltre un anno di utilizzo con i filtri di default, il funzionamento merita 5 stelle con lode !
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Purtroppo uBlock Origin funziona cosi bene da impedire la normale, quotidiana fruizione - da parte di un utente medio - di decine di pagine web da utilizzarsi per il lavoro, impedisce il normale funzionamento di pagine pubbliche, come ad es. i quotidiani, oltre al funzionamento di centinaia di pagine web lecite frequentate abitualmente.
Purtroppo sicurezza e soddisfasfazione sono due obiettivi non convergenti. Bisogna scegliere quale dei due è prioritario.
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D'altra parte, non si può disabilitare permanentemente un sito tramite per ogni pagina che si visita, quindi ricordarsi di andare ogni volta nelle impostazioni di uBlock Origin, cancellare la regola e tornare a navigare.
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uBlock Origin costringe ad una scelta radicale tra il poter visitare pagine necessarie alla propria attività, tra l'avere le informazioni che si cercano, e bloccare quasi tutto rinunciando ad attività necessarie e ad informazioni necessarie o di approfondimento generale.
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Anche se il problema verrebbe solamente spostato, potrebbe essere utile aggiungere una scelta meno drastica che consenta tramite pulsante, di sospendere solo temporaneamente il funzionamento di uBlock Origin su specifiche pagine, riattivandone il funzionamento completo al riavvio del browser.