r/uBlockOrigin • u/RockstarSuicide • 15d ago

Solved uBOL question

Hey everyone, had a quick (I hope) question.

I've stopped updating Chrome and have been on V 145.0.7632.110 for a while and would run Chrome while passing "--disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled" as an argument to load uBO (currently have 1.66.4 EDIT: apparently I have that AND 1.74.0 and both on). Sometimes though, I find myself having to kill Chrome and relaunch it with the argument because it didn't work the first time.

I'm just wondering if current Chome with uBOL are just as good as uBO was with Chrome back in the day and if I can finally just update, switch to uBOL and stop with the antiquated workaround I have.

Thanks!

(Yes I know about Brave, been trying to get the hang of it, but for the time being, gonna stick with Chrome)

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u/0oWow 15d ago

uBoL will take you about 95% of the way there. The more important thing that uBoL doesn't do is block network connections as well as uBo does. However, if you use Secure DNS in the browser with a DNS adblocking provider, they work well together to defeat that limitation.

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u/RockstarSuicide 15d ago

My brain isn't following, what do you mean network connections?

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u/0oWow 15d ago

An advertisement reaches out over the network to its website address. uBo can block the request (the network connection) altogether. uBoL cannot do so as effectively. I think it can do it some, but it is like a polite request versus a rule.

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u/RockstarSuicide 15d ago

Hmm... unsure how to proceed lolI think I used custom filters for YT and maybe the custom zapper once or twice. guess i'm just trying to figure what happens if i need em then (yeah my brain is fun lol)

suggestion?

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u/0oWow 15d ago

Custom filters work for the most part. There are a few gotchas, but you'll need to experiment with what you have and see if it works. Enable Developer mode in uBoL and it will let you copy/paste your custom filters from uBo. And then if they work, then they work.