Reviews for uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
385 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Notetaker, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by McJustice, 5 months agoAs of 11/06 causes youtube videos to stop buffering on SOME videos, I assume with forced ads. This occurs in Firefox
- Rated 1 out of 5by ShereeBrown, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kampty, 6 months agoI am giving the extension one star, because the developer stopped updating it on Mozilla extensions store and moved it to GitHub. Mozilla app store is more convenient way to download extensions and I prefer switching to different extension, then downloading github extension on my every device (since no synchronization for selfhosted extension). As an ordinary user, I don't care about conflicts between the developer and Mozilla team
- Rated 1 out of 5by Trogocytosed, 6 months agoAs of yesterday 6/16/2024 uBlock Origin is failing to block advertisements on YouTube using the Firefox 126.0.1 browser, thus rendering the principal utility of this add-on useless for me.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16660824, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18454019, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by jotshka, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18375309, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zoiyya, 8 months agoworked great the last couple weeks, now I'm getting ads on Twitch again!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18281626, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dermacrosis, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by King, 8 months agoНекоторые сайты не открываются. Только после выключения блокера. Рекламу пропускает. Довольно средняя программа. Хватило несколько дней пользования, чтобы с ней распрощаться насовсем.
- Rated 1 out of 5by LS, 8 months agoUseless on mobile browser. Won't pick elements effectively or permanently. Have to go back to the app page with every pick. Yet unwanted elements not removed. And if I'm missing something that means it's NOT user-friendly. Frustrating to use and all that effort and it just won't work. Meanwhile features to block large elements or JavaScript won't turn off. I know mobile versions are inherently inferior but still. Don't want.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Spicy_Pacifist, 9 months agoPlease add in a way that clears Youtube Cache or something. No matter what I do my videos keep jumping ahead ever since you got rid of the purge all caches button. I do not have the time to clear caches of websites after I use them every single day. Please add in something to make it happen automatically again. (By the way this is after I read the update on your reddit)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Muppet, 9 months agoSince week ago or more certain links do not open even when disabling all the filter list, and start working after disabling ublock extension like youtu.be share links but also other websites can randomly get blocked even tho they aren't after disabling and re enabling ublock origin, not sure whats causing this i suspect ublock is is malfunctioning
edit: I just checked its bassicly on defaults, if i disable plugin then enable it works for a time until browser is restarted, it was also blocking infinite craft website 1e google result, behaves same way unless i disable plugin, i do not have this plugin in edge will check and update in a bit if it also happens in edge with ublock origin
edit: i had ublock origin on all the time on edge it does not happen however in edge suspend network activity is off currently
After configuring edge the same as firefox, the youtu.be links always work, even after killing it will update in an hour probably maybe a day and update if not the case, cos usually after disabling plugin in firefox and enabling it again it works for a while.Developer response
posted 9 months agoDid you inadvertently enable the no-popups switch? See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-popups
Anyway you can get better help by reporting on official support forums along with your troubleshooting information -- see Support pane in uBO's dashboard. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18295784, 9 months agoThis was working really great til today when it didn't work on youtube anymore. please let us bypass youcrap again!
- Rated 1 out of 5by IvanJGC, 10 months agoHello, this site, https://free-mp3-download.net/ has it's "adblocker detected" message popping up. I tried everything to remove the message so i can use the site again but nothing happened. Ublock origin also doesn't work as well when i tried to update the filters. Please sort this issue out. A lot of users are having the same problem with the site especially those who are using Ublock origin as their adblocker!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Hartmut, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18096434, 10 months agoDoesn´t work anymore on some streaming sites since clear cache button is removed. Popups and ads on some sides. Updating lists does nothing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Darkman, a year agoThey removed the "purge all caches" button!
Update 2024-01-18:
So, if I have a page with updated anti-adblocker script (not YT), I have to wait up to 5 hours now. Or I have to click on the clock icons from all the lists. This is really a usability improvement......not.
Update 2024-01-19:
I probably expressed myself badly:
I have a site that doesn't want me to use an adblocker. The site recognizes the adblocker with some script and blocks me. This happens every few weeks. The last time was a few days ago with uBO 1.55.
My solution so far: Use the "Purge all caches" button. Then I was able to visit the site again. For me, this meant that I had one/several outdated filter lists in uBO.
If the problem was caused by another addon or my browser, I would not be able to solve the problem with "Purge all caches".Developer response
posted 10 months agoThe "Purge all caches" button was causing people to download multi MBs of filter lists with no guarantee that the fix was present in any these lists. There is no need for that crude way of updating filter lists:
- Differential updates ensure you have most recent filters multiple times per day instead of once every 6 days
- In case a fix is added to a list and is immediately needed by a user, we provide a click-to-update link in support channels to guarantee you receive the fix with minimal bandwidth burden
Keep in mind uBO is not monetized and we can't afford to end up having to pay tens of thousands of US dollars to a CDN providers to host the lists -- this would be the end of the project.
Update 2024-01-18:
The updated anti-blocker has no effect on uBO, no fix needs to be added to the lists, so something else in your browser is causing this, and re-downloading all the lists would have accomplished nothing except pointlessly consumes bandwidth of the server.
You need to follow the instructions to the letter: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586 - Rated 1 out of 5by animedogor, a year agoNo funciona en youtube, literalmente bloquea la pagina por completo, la pagina no carga, debo desactivarlo para poder entrar a youtube
- Rated 1 out of 5by Brandy, a year agoI need to remove can not get into any of my messages or facebook
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18188210, a year ago