this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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uBlockOrigin

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uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

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Works 100% of the time for me. So far, anyway.

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[–] maeries@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does it do and why does it work?

[–] Sprite@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It manually updates the list used to block the ad elements. The adblock devs are battling Google as Google is changing the elements to make the lists obsolete, hence why sometimes manual update is needed even with auto-update enabled.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock origin helps me keep my sanity

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Commercials on YouTube make Homer something something

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago