uBlock Origin
Popular and efficient blocker for Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox (desktop and Android), Opera, Thunderbird. Fast and lean.
What is uBlock Origin?
A wide-spectrum efficient blocker. Which block ads, trackers and malware sites. Supports Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird. Fast and lean, and as of 2017 still being actively improved. Forked from 
uBlock
uBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites, and is reported to be much less memory-intensive than other extensions
Manifesto
• The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser.
• The uBlock Origin project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto", because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is really the business plan of a for-profit entity.
• Users are best placed to know what is or is not acceptable to them. uBlock Origin's sole purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own choices.
uBlockuBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites, and is reported to be much less memory-intensive than other extensions
Manifesto
• The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser.
• The uBlock Origin project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto", because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is really the business plan of a for-profit entity.
• Users are best placed to know what is or is not acceptable to them. uBlock Origin's sole purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own choices.
Recent user activities on uBlock Origin
- gltchpnk added Low CPU usage as a feature to uBlock Origin
- gltchpnk reviewed uBlock Originit's a wonderful wide-spectrum blocker~ it even has a lot of block lists and unblock lists, you can even add your own things~ it works wonderful, configurable & low on cpu usage compared to some "adblockers"
- NylaTheWolf thinks SponsorBlock is an alternative to uBlock Origin
The good
• I love it. It is owned and supported by a friendly community. Not a corporation. More secure because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
• Easy to use. With both basic or advanced modes.
• Lightweight on memory and CPU resources
• More than 12 million users. Including 3.8+ millions users on Firefox and 8.9+ millions users on Chrome
• Clear Manifesto:
......• The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser.
......• The uBlock project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto", because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is really the business plan of a for-profit entity.
......• Users are best placed to know what is or is not acceptable to them. uBlock's sole purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own choices.
• Lots of features
• uBlock Origin has a better track record at fully protecting your privacy, than AdBlock Plus (ABP). There is a controversy around ABP and its related for profit corporation trying to monetize ABP via ad whitelisting. Which means that corporation sales your privacy for profit :( Source at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus
The bad
• Confusion with the names. Between "uBlock Origin" and "uBlock". For those not familiar with those names, uBlock Origin is better than uBlock. Mostly because as of May 2017 Ublock Origin is still actively maintained and updated. Source at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin Compare to uBlock which as not been maintained and updated for more than 2 years, since 2015, and is trying to monetize an open source project. Source at https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock
People who want adblock but don't do any research wind up with AdBlock Plus. Those that do a little digging will find that uBlock Origin is the best in pretty much every aspect.
Reply written over 4 years ago
Wladimir Palant has made himself untrustworthy with his inane "acceptable privacy violation" defaults.
3rd party ads sell privacy for profit: this is ALWAYS UNACCEPTABLE.
ublock origin is the only remaining adBLOCK project with a focus on BLOCKING and safeguarding PRIVACY
it's a wonderful wide-spectrum blocker~
it even has a lot of block lists and unblock lists, you can even add your own things~
it works wonderful, configurable & low on cpu usage compared to some "adblockers"
it works
I like this application
I switched from ABP because they whitelist some ads for profit. The one thing I like about ABP is that you could whitelist sites you chose, thereby supporting ads for websites you like, and uBlock just blocks everything.
unblock the flash