uBlock Origin

Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

What is uBlock Origin?

uBlock Origin is an add-on for Edge that serves as an efficient blocker with diverse filter lists. It comes ready with a selection of filters like EasyList, Peter Lowe’s Ad server list, and others for immediate protection. You also have the freedom to add more filters as per your preference, ensuring a smoother browsing experience. Apart from being an ad blocker, it can read and create filters from hosts files. It's a user-friendly, open-sourced tool designed to be effective while using minimal system resources.

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By: Nik Rolls

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Users: 14,587,026 ▼ -1,984,815

Rating: 4.60 (2,012) ▲ 4 new ratings

Version: 1.57.2 (Last updated: 2024-04-08)

Creation date: 2022-02-10

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

alarms
contextMenus
privacy
storage
tabs
unlimitedStorage
webNavigation
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
<all_urls>

Size: 3.84M

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 7 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#2 in Productivity

#1 in Block ads and more

#1 in contribute keyword 44 ▲ 56

#1 in memory keyword 33 ▲ 36

#2 in project keyword 27 ▲ 183

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Other platforms

uBlock Pro (v2.1.7)

4.20 (126) 20,000

uBlock Origin (v1.58.0)

4.79 (18,081) 7,250,099

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Summary

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An efficient blocker: Fast, potent and lean, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there.

Illustrated overview of its efficiency: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared

Usage: The big power button in the popup is to permanently disable/enable uBlock for the current web site. It applies to the current web site only, it is not a global power button.

Flexible, it's more than an "ad blocker": it can also read and create filters from hosts files.

Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced:

EasyList
Peter Lowe’s Ad server list
EasyPrivacy

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Blocks unsafe ads
Lightweight
Open source

Cons

Consumes a lot of RAM
Causes browser to not load pages
Occasional bugs and connectivity issues

Most mentioned

Causes browser to not load pages
Consumes a lot of RAM
Blocks unsafe ads

Recent reviews

This works excellent for the u tubes.

by Gabriel, 2024-07-25

Got tired of all the right wing propaganda on Youtube. Now I can freely choose my propaganda.

by Dayton, 2024-07-24

広告設定をいくら変えても、パーソナライズ目的で他の広告を押しまくっても大量に表示されていたエロ広告が、まったく表示されなくなりました。毎日うんざりしていたので大変助かりました。

by N, 2024-07-24

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Safety

Risk impact

uBlock Origin is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install uBlock Origin if you trust the publisher.