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• Permissions

  • Can you trust uBlock Origin?

• Privacy policy

• Install from:

  • Firefox Add-ons ↗︎,
  • Chrome Web Store ↗︎,
  • Opera Add-ons ↗︎,
  • Microsoft Edge Add-ons ↗︎,
  • Downloaded package,
  • Source (for developers)

• The popup user interface

  • The per-site switches

• The context menu

• Dashboard

  • Settings pane
    • Cloud storage
    • Advanced user features
      • Advanced settings
  • Filter lists pane
  • My filters pane
    • Static filter syntax
      • Procedural cosmetic filters
      • Resources Library
  • My rules pane
    • Dynamic filtering
      • Quick guide
      • Rule syntax
      • Rule precedence
      • Blocking mode
    • Dynamic URL filtering
  • Trusted sites pane
    • How to mark a web site as trusted
  • Keyboard shortcuts

• The logger

  • DOM inspector

• Element picker

• Element zapper

• Blocking mode

  • Very easy mode
  • Easy mode (default)
    • Easy mode + more privacy
    • Easy mode + enhanced security/privacy
  • Medium mode (optimal for advanced users)
  • Hard mode
  • Nightmare mode

• Strict blocking

  • Badware risks

• Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine

  • Overview of uBlock's network filtering engine: details
  • Does uBlock Origin block ads or just hide them?
  • Doesn't uBlock Origin add overhead to page load?

• Tools, tests

• Deploying uBlock Origin

• Troubleshooting:

  • Privileged Pages
  • Software known to have uninstalled uBlock Origin
  • The removed element reappears when you reload the page
  • Read carefully if using uBO/webext on legacy Firefox

• Good external guides:

  • How to use uBlock Origin advanced user mode tutorial ↗︎
  • Firefox: uBlock Origin – Firefox-Kompendium Teil2 ↗︎
  • Beginners Cheat Sheet - "Syntax Meanings That Are Actually Human Readable" ↗︎
• Unsorted topics:

  • Privacy stuff
  • Tricks and tips waterfall
  • How to ...
  • Memory footprint: what happens inside uBlock after installation
  • uBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
  • Own memory usage: benchmarks over time
  • Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time
  • Counterpoint: Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB RAM and|or a quad core CPU
  • Myth: uBlock consumes over 80MB
  • Myth: uBlock is just slightly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus
  • Counterpoints: unsorted
  • uBlock and others: Blocking ads, trackers, malwares
  • About "This other extension reports more stuff blocked!"
  • About "uBlock is inferior in capabilities as a result of being lighter on the browser"
  • About "Why uBlock Origin works so much better than Pi‑hole does?"
  • Various videos showing side by side comparison of the load speed of complex sites
  • Scientific papers
  • Why don't you accept donations?
  • Reference description of uBO in various extensions stores
  • Draft version of this wiki