Yeah tried it like a month ago and it was too buggy for me as well. Safari on iOS does already support ad blockers though they’re not as good as ublock origin most likely.
If you look at the project’s history, it was originally called µBlock “Micro Block”. You can even see this in the first sentence on the Wikipedia page! They changed the name to avoid confusion regarding pronunciation.
The use of the Greek symbol for micro was to denote that the app has a very small memory footprint and is very performant.
I know it might make me weird to call it by it’s original name, but I don’t think I’ll stop anytime soon.
It’s just unhelpful for people who want to find the extension. Also uBlock Origin was never called µBlock Origin, so if you want to be pedantic you best not be technically incorrect in any way.
Fortunately for me, it doesn’t matter what search engine or extension manager you use, searching for the original name “µBlock” comes up with exactly what you’re looking for, no confusion there!
I always say origin, because there are 2 different things that call themselves “uBlock”, one is our beloved, one is not.
Furthermore, I’m not just pedantic, I’m pedantic, and also a little odd. But regardless, I’m definitely not confusing the best adblocker with a terrible torrent client.
Cool! Are you talking about something like pi-hole or something else? In what way is it going to lead to better outcomes? I already have a pretty much flawless experience with my adblockers (especially when it comes to easily creating custom rules, using the element zapper, and testing new blocklists).
I find that my suite of browser extensions serves me really well, and it keeps working even when I enable my VPN, but something like pi-hole stops working if you do that.
How does the solution you’re talking about differ? How does it provide a better experience?
It’s the other way around. DNS based filters are more efficient since connection attempt is simply dropped, but browser based adblocks are a lot more feature rich allowing blocking specific HTML elements not just domains. Additional CPU power to have such extension is miniscule compared to what you gain.
This is actually huge.
I’m far FAR from an Apple user, but the moment this is available, I’ll be seeing if I can install FireFox with µBlock Origin on my partner’s phone.
For what it’s worth you can get uBO on Orion browser right now.
Last time I tried to use that browser it was too buggy for me though.
Yeah tried it like a month ago and it was too buggy for me as well. Safari on iOS does already support ad blockers though they’re not as good as ublock origin most likely.
uBlock Origin, you’re thinking of µTorrent.
Also, for anyone who doesn’t know, µTorrent is spyware, use qBittorrent
I am not, but thanks for trying to help!
If you look at the project’s history, it was originally called µBlock “Micro Block”. You can even see this in the first sentence on the Wikipedia page! They changed the name to avoid confusion regarding pronunciation.
The use of the Greek symbol for micro was to denote that the app has a very small memory footprint and is very performant.
I know it might make me weird to call it by it’s original name, but I don’t think I’ll stop anytime soon.
It’s just unhelpful for people who want to find the extension. Also uBlock Origin was never called µBlock Origin, so if you want to be pedantic you best not be technically incorrect in any way.
Fortunately for me, it doesn’t matter what search engine or extension manager you use, searching for the original name “µBlock” comes up with exactly what you’re looking for, no confusion there!
I always say origin, because there are 2 different things that call themselves “uBlock”, one is our beloved, one is not.
Furthermore, I’m not just pedantic, I’m pedantic, and also a little odd. But regardless, I’m definitely not confusing the best adblocker with a terrible torrent client.
Way to argue for using a dead name
Blocking is far better on the VPN routing level then bothering with a browser extension.
Cool! Are you talking about something like pi-hole or something else? In what way is it going to lead to better outcomes? I already have a pretty much flawless experience with my adblockers (especially when it comes to easily creating custom rules, using the element zapper, and testing new blocklists).
I find that my suite of browser extensions serves me really well, and it keeps working even when I enable my VPN, but something like pi-hole stops working if you do that.
How does the solution you’re talking about differ? How does it provide a better experience?
It’s the other way around. DNS based filters are more efficient since connection attempt is simply dropped, but browser based adblocks are a lot more feature rich allowing blocking specific HTML elements not just domains. Additional CPU power to have such extension is miniscule compared to what you gain.
I use a combo as I like the blocks happening within apps as well.
Same here, but I have disabled it for Firefox and let uBlock handle browser. Some sites detected and disliked DNS level blocking.