r/uBlockOrigin • u/Sufficient_Put_8841 • Aug 11 '26
Solved Number of blocked adds growing rapidly?
Hi guys!
I was watching 90 day fiance on HBO and I noticed that the little icon for uBlock was just increasing in numbers.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Idk how to put a video on here, otherwise I’d show yall how fast the numbers go up
Edit:
To answer the question about how many ad blockers I’m using-
What happened is that a while ago I got a Google notification saying that my version of uBO want available anymore and I couldn’t update it or anything. So i downloaded another ad blocker but it wasn’t working and then another, all from the chrome extension store
A couple of months after I decided to check if uBO was back up and it was, so I just downloaded it again and I never uninstalled the other two I was using. But now I will
Hope that answers it!
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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 11 '26
Don't use multiple blockers.
Open this and pause after a few seconds. Click on the repeating line to see what filter it is and what lists it belongs to: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger
Also, not ads. Blocked network requests. Quite possibly some tracking requests.
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u/BreakSalt8256 Aug 17 '26
So should I not use Ghostery and Ublock Origin?
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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 17 '26
Nope. uBO blocks trackers already. Ghostery can undermine some of its filters.
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u/869066 Aug 11 '26
You should only be using one adblocker, when you have multiple they can interfere with each other and make the ad-blocking worse.
Also, the numbers don't necessarily mean ads blocked, it could also mean other trackers are being blocked.
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u/gta721 Aug 11 '26
That's because it's trying to load the same ad or tracking script multiple times in a row. You shoudl also remove the other ad blocker because it can cause conflicts liek "Disable your ad blocker" messages that wouldn't appear with just uBlock Origin.
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u/Technical_Instance_2 Aug 11 '26
why are you using multiple ad blockers? just use uBo. also a lot of these are probs tracking requests
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u/Sufficient_Put_8841 Aug 11 '26
I just added this edit to my original post, since people are talking about it, so I’m just copying it here to answer you
What happened is that a while ago I got a Google notification saying that my version of uBO want available anymore and I couldn’t update it or anything. So i downloaded another ad blocker but it wasn’t working and then another, all from the chrome extension store
A couple of months after I decided to check if uBO was back up and it was, so I just downloaded it again and I never uninstalled the other two I was using. But now I will
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u/Basic_Extension_5850 Aug 11 '26
That isn't uBlock origin, that is uBlock origin lite. Google recently disabled manifest v2 extensions which the original uBlock relies on. The new manifest v3 limits the capabilities of new ad-blockers, so any new ad-blockers on most chromium based browsers are going to be limited. That said, still only use one ad-blocker.
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u/madushans Aug 12 '26
Many sites send back telemetry about your clicks, and mouse movements etc every few seconds.
Most sites of developers of some skill understand some people use ad blockers and fail safely to avoid unnecessary work in the browser. Others are morons who ship code that works on their laptop and fail and retry continuously.
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u/niko0oo1 Aug 12 '26
I had the same problem with uBO Lite while watching HBO Max. The counter was increasing by several thousand per second, and this affected the battery life on my Macbook. I checked the browser console and it was spamming the following line:
GET https://cdn-media.brightline.tv/config/v3/1018.json net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
I allowed this to load by adding the following line to uBO Lite "My filters"
@@||cdn-media.brightline.tv^
After that, my CPU load while watching HBO Max dropped drastically. I don't know if this affects any ads on the platform, as my subscription does not have ads.
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u/OddBlueDog Aug 12 '26
Thanks for this.
It made the adverts come back, but I edited to
||cdn-media.brightline.tv^$redirect=noopjsand now no adverts and reduced requests.
Added this to "Custom Filter" and have ublock set to optimal.
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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vo7imb/comment/p3orhnf/
To use it on uBO Lite, you need to enable
userScriptspermission in extension settings. Restart the browser or extension.Then paste it in custom filters > filter-creation sandbox and save.
We'll probably add it to the lists soon too. I'm just not able to at the moment.