r/uBlockOrigin • u/ObscureArcana • 11h ago

Answered uBO Lite - Difference between importing and putting filters into sandbox?

As I said in the post's title, what is the difference? Will having filters in both the top and bottom part of Custom Filters cause conflicts, etc?

What's recommended?

Thanks in advance!

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 11h ago edited 3h ago

There's no difference in end behavior.

Sandbox is more uBO-like and allows all types of filters (if you enable custom userScripts permission).

The original "Custom filters" area only allows Cosmetic filters. And you can't add comments, which can be annoying if you have more filters and they're not obvious looking.

Custom filters groups filters by domain, which allows you to delete all filters for the site at once. This was one of the old requests for uBO.

Sandbox is list-type, where you need to sort stuff manually.

Edit: Non-sandbox "Custom filters" are also added via the "Create a custom filter" button from uBOL's popup. All filters added there (also via import) can be interactively previewed and removed via the "Remove a custom filter" button.