gorhill took exception to this and asked chrismatic to change the name so people didn't confuse uBlock (the original, now called uBlock Origin) and uBlock (chrismatic's version). If you're using a VPN which doesn't block WebRTC leaks, for instance, there's a Privacy option in Settings which should do it for you. chrismatic promptly added donate buttons and a 'made with love by Chris' note. The more you select, the more likely you are to have problems, without necessarily much gain in security.Įxperts can customise the program with their own filters, and there are a few other potentially useful extras. The "3rd-party filters" tab in uBlock's Settings shows you all the currently active filters and has many others, but treat this with care. When the Google Chrome extension store loads on the screen, enter the name of the extension you are looking for: uBlock Origin in the left area of the window in. Answer (1 of 6): As I see, Ublock origin capable to do everything what others have (adblock,ghostery,disconnect.) if you check the ublock settings, you can enable the disconnect filters and also privacy options that ghostery use. Go to the bottom of the page and open the item «More extensions». UBlock Origin uses multiple sources to identify what to block, including Malware Domain List, EasyList and Peter Lowe's Ad and tracking server list. To do this, click on the browser menu icon and in the displayed list go to «Additional tools» - «Extensions». An element picker enables fine-tuning blocking for a specific part of the current page, or you can turn blocking off entirely for the whole site. If a site isn't working, you're able to toggle particular blocking types - popups, large media elements, remote fonts, more - with a click.
UBlock Origin adds an icon to your address bar which shows the number of requests it's blocked if everything's fine you can leave it to run entirely atomatically, but clicking the icon displays a panel giving more control. UBlock Origin uses multiple sources to identify what to block, including Malware Domain List, EasyList and Peter Lowes Ad and tracking server list. If you've ever used another ad blocker you'll already understand the basics. This is why we continue to hear about hacks and data breaches all the time, yet very rarely observe anything super nasty like backdoors and the like these days on most consumer devices (usually the worst thing I see is ransomware, which typically gets in through an exploit, typically from a malicious ad ironically enough (and the ad is likely to be blocked by one or more of the aforementioned extensions of course, rendering the exploit harmless to those who use such blocking tools) or malicious email attachment).UBlock Origin is a popular and efficient content blocker which can protect you from ads, trackers, malware and more.
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On the other hand, targeted attackers going after high value targets (such as businesses, websites/servers, government and infrastructural targets etc.) would not target such a plugin/extension because such extensions are not often used in such environments and there are much easier ways into a system (remember, those extensions are sandboxed and the browser runs in a limited user mode with no admin privileges by default) to achieve full access/control over it. ransomware, tech support scams etc.) or scamming money (phishing scams, bogus products etc.) in order to gain the most profits. The bad guys typically target the largest groups/most commonly used applications so that they can infect as many as possible when the objective is extortion (i.e. Is it possible? Certainly, but not very likely. That would be like the bad guys trying to use your AV to infect you.
I do not see any issues or performance impact using these together, all fully enabled.Īs for attack surface, I'm not too worried about a blocking browser extension being leveraged in an attack, both because extensions are sandboxed within the browser (a security measure implemented in modern browsers), and because it wouldn't make much sense for attackers to target the kinds of extensions used by those who actually know the risks of online threats and ads and use such tools to enhance their safety/browsing. I'm currently using Malwarebytes Browser Guard, uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, HTTPS Everywhere, Nano Defender and uBlock Origin Extra in addition to Web Protection in Malwarebytes Premium and a massive HOSTS file currently containing almost 1 million entries and counting. What's new in uBlock Origin for Chrome 1.43.1b10 Beta: New procedural cosmetic filter operator: :matches-media() Commit: The argument must be a valid media query as documented on MDN, i.e.