#Firefox ublock origin software#
#Firefox ublock origin code#
#Firefox ublock origin plus#

The popular filter lists EasyList and EasyPrivacy are enabled by default, along with the malware domain blocklist URLHaus. UBlock Origin supports the majority of Adblock Plus's filter syntax. The project specifically refuses donations and instead advises supporters to donate to maintainers of block lists. Īs of January 2021, the uBlock Origin Chrome extension had over 10 million active users and the Firefox version had 5 million active users. In April 2020, this fork was deprecated as Microsoft replaced Microsoft Edge Legacy with a Chromium-based Edge. On December 11, 2016, Nik Rolls released a fork of uBlock Origin for the Microsoft Edge browser (now known as Microsoft Edge Legacy).

The extension was awarded 'Pick of the Month' by Mozilla for May 2016. In January 2016, uBlock Origin was added to the repositories for Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04. The report attributed the growth to the desire of users for pure blockers outside the ' acceptable advertising' program.

#Firefox ublock origin software#

Ī joint Sourcepoint and comScore survey reported an 833% growth rate over a ten-month tracking period ending in August 2015, the strongest growth among software listed. Raymond Hill, the founder and original author of uBlock, as of 2015 continued to work on the extension under the name uBlock Origin, sometimes stylized as uBlock 0, and abbreviated as uBO. UBlock Origin remains independent and does not allow ads for payment.

#Firefox ublock origin plus#

In July 2018, was acquired by AdBlock and since February 2019 began allowing ' Acceptable Ads', a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed 'acceptable', and for which the larger publishers pay a fee. In response, uBlock's founder Raymond Hill stated that 'the donations sought by are not benefiting any of those who contributed most to create uBlock Origin.' The development of uBlock stopped in August 2015 and it has been sporadically updated since January 2017. Aljoudi created to host and promote uBlock and to request donations. This version was later renamed uBlock Origin and it has been completely divorced from Aljoudi's uBlock. However Hill immediately self-forked it and continued the effort there. The uBlock project official repository was transferred to Chris Aljoudi by original developer Raymond Hill in April 2015, due to frustration of dealing with requests. First released in June 2014 as a Chrome and Opera extension, by winter 2015 the extension had expanded to other browsers.

#Firefox ublock origin code#

uBlock was developed by Raymond Hill to use community-maintained block lists, while adding features and raising the code quality to release standards. Development started by forking from the codebase of HTTP Switchboard along with another blocking extension called uMatrix, designed for advanced users. UBlock was initially named 'μBlock' but the name was later changed to 'uBlock' to avoid confusion as to how the Greek letter μ (Mu/Micro) in 'μBlock' should be pronounced. 2.2 CNAME-uncloaking third-party trackers in Firefox.If ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free. More lists are available for you to select if you wish:Īdditionally, you can point-and-click to block JavaScript locally or globally, create your own global or local rules to override entries from filter lists, and many more advanced features.

Peter Lowe’s Ad server list (ads and tracking) through the following lists of filters, enabled by default: Out of the box, uBO blocks ads, trackers, coin miners, popups, etc. UBlock Origin is not an 'ad blocker', it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.