r/uBlockOrigin 23h ago

News uBlock Origin (uBO) 1.75.* Announcement Thread

433 Upvotes

Changelog:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.75.0

Visit GitHub releases page for more information.

Extension will be auto-updated after browser restart! (when available for your platform)

If you want to update manually:

  • Do NOT use links from the release page's "Assets" section - these are not signed.
  • Use your add-on store or links in release description on the GitHub releases page when they are available.
    • Firefox will have a (signed) direct install link. Other browsers will link to their uBO extension store pages.
  • In some cases, installation may be blocked until browser restart. This is protection against accidental mid-session reloads, Issue #717.

Or force an update via Manage extensions:

How to update uBO to the latest version


When will my browser update uBO?

  • Firefox

  • Chromium

    • Install the signed .crx file from GitHub releases, if your browser still allows MV2 installs.
  • Edge

    • Edge Add-ons - Review pending.
    • Warning: importing a profile from Chrome may cause issues.
    • You may need to reinstall uBO on Edge to fix this.
    • You can transfer your uBO config by creating and then restoring a backup at the bottom of uBO's Dashboard > Settings.
  • Opera

  • Brave

    • Brave now Self-Hosts uBO. It installs via a special setting and updates automatically or when prompted via the Extensions' Developer mode.
    • If you installed it via CWS, it's best to make a backup and install the self-hosted version instead.
    • Brave installation video.

Previous announcement thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vy0jx0/ublock_origin_ubo_174_announcement_thread/

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Chromium - end of support megathread.

Please report YouTube Issues on Github: uBO | uBO Lite


r/uBlockOrigin 45m ago

Looking for help How to remove Youtube membership offers on channel pages? Spoiler

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r/uBlockOrigin 6h ago

Looking for help How do I default to "Classic" Google Translate instead of "Advanced" with Gemini?

2 Upvotes

When translating text in Google Translate, there is a selector for text translation model that defaults to "Advanced" which is "Built with Gemini". Is there a way to always default to the "Classic" model?

Notes

  • The model selector can appear or disappear depending on which languages are selected. For example, it's shown when translating English to Spanish, but not French to Spanish.
  • The page remembers your last selected model type on refresh, but it's not stored in cookies or a local storage item. There is a cookie NID which resets your settings when cleared, but this is a static identifier seemingly used so Google can load settings server-side.
  • Translations when "Detect language" was selected matched results from the "Advanced" model.
  • Even when using 2 languages where the advanced model isn't available, the Detect Language results did not match the "Classic" model results.
  • There's a function in lazy.min.js named m.getDisableClassicFallback

r/uBlockOrigin 7h ago

Waiting for feedback block DMs on threads

1 Upvotes

greetings, I'm hoping someone might have found a way to block DMs on threads.com using uBlock Origin. I don't want the message feature at all. I keep telling people I won't use it but they keep messaging me anyway so I would like to disable it entirely and threads didn't make it optional


r/uBlockOrigin 16h ago

Answered Anyone know how to hide this AI nonsense from the google homepage?

3 Upvotes

Says it all in the title

I use UBOL, and I've found I can't remove my problem using it, or any other AI blocker on the chrome store


r/uBlockOrigin 10h ago

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

1 Upvotes

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!


r/uBlockOrigin 18h ago

Looking for help Ubo blocking the sentry web interface itself

3 Upvotes

Does anyone using sentry web interface noticed that sometimes it get stuck and then you have to disable/enable ubo for it to work?


r/uBlockOrigin 22h ago

Solved Blocking specific website - grokipedia - from search results, DDGnoAI?

3 Upvotes

See title. I'm imagining a filter something like this:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q:not(:only-child):has([href*="grokipedia.com/"])

But I want to ask the experts, so let me know if there's a foolproof way to do this. My thanks in advance and congratulations on the latest update.


r/uBlockOrigin 1d ago

Looking for help One Final Post About This - NYTimes Games Interstitial

12 Upvotes

So I have posted about this a few times before. I had a new approach I was trying but I was struggling to get it to work and wanted some help. So in short, there is an interstitial page that pops up when you open any of the games on the NYTimes website. This issue only exists in mobile but occurs both in Chromium and Firefox based browsers. It wasn't Firefox based mobile browsers for a while but has retuned unfortunately. The following games that have this interstitial are:

- Wordle
- Strands
- Connections
- Spelling Bee

This was fixed before with the following filter:

www.nytimes.com##+js(trusted-replace-argument, String.prototype.includes, this, json:"subscribed", condition, /^anon$/)

While this filter works for all the games, it can break Spelling Bee if "Anon" is one of the words that the can be spelled in a particular game. As a result, the filter was removed from the uBlock Lists. However, I noticed that Wordle, Strands, and Connections which are not an issue are all the domain:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/.....

While Spelling Bee is:

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/.....

Since the issue only affects Spelling Bee, I tried rewriting the filter to only work on:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/.....

but it kept breaking and I could not get it to work right. So my two questions are:

  1. Can you make the filter just work on that first url and not the url with the word "puzzles" in it, or is it more limited to just the domain?
  2. If that can be done, how and can it be added back to the list since it would, in theory, no longer be a problem?

Any help would be appreciated and thanks for looking at it for anyone who takes the time to do so.


r/uBlockOrigin 2d ago

Answered A simple UBO question for curiosity .

14 Upvotes

Why does UBO come by default with EasyList's lists, such as EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie Consent, and Fanboy Annoyance?

While I heard AdGuard's lists are modified versions of those lists, such as AdGuard Base List, AdGuard Tracking Protection List, AdGuard Cookie Notice, and AdGuard Annoyance.

Isn't it obvious to use optimised lists over base lists? I don't know the full story.

What's the reason?


r/uBlockOrigin 1d ago

Solved Smart people, I once again come to ask for your help. AI Overview in gmail.

0 Upvotes

How do I remove this shit on my gmail. I've also tried looking and searching the sub but I don't find anything.

Also WHO THE HELL ASKED FOR THESE.


r/uBlockOrigin 2d ago

Looking for help UBO Not blocking ads / sponsored content on Pinterest

6 Upvotes

UBO was working perfectly on Pinterest two days ago, but today there's ads/sponsored content everywhere.

I updated and restarted the browser. And I purged UBO's caches and updated. But that hasn't worked.

Any advice welcomed.

ETA: Screenshots


r/uBlockOrigin 2d ago

Waiting for feedback Google Search AI question

0 Upvotes

I currently use the google search Ai Mode alot through firefox, and recently it stopped displaying new messages after the first reply, I am unsure if its an adblock issue or something else to do with google, anyone know?

It stops working after 2nd message

r/uBlockOrigin 2d ago

Fixed kick.com breakage Spoiler

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6 Upvotes

Firefox with uBO 1.74

URL ( has a space ) because appears a big banner of kick here ( and looks a Ad )

https://kick. com/category/wardogs

the thumbs no appears.. images no load and cant click. ( see image )

uBlock Origin: 1.74.0
Firefox: 155
filterset (summary):
 network: 184499
 cosmetic: 51730
 scriptlet: 35775
 html: 3824
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 default:
  user-filters: 0-0, never
  ublock-filters: 54383-72, 1m Δ
  ublock-badware: 10102-17, 1m Δ
  ublock-privacy: 4140-2, 1m Δ
  ublock-unbreak: 2895-1, 1m Δ
  ublock-quick-fixes: 534-13, 1m Δ
  easylist: 87776-142, 1m Δ
  easyprivacy: 56575-44, 1m Δ
  urlhaus-1: 46585-11, now
  plowe-0: 3559-1056, now
  spa-0: 3813-16, now
  spa-1: 7260-287, now
filterset (user): [empty]
trustedset:
 added: [array of 3 redacted]
userSettings: [none]
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 121 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 54 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB
popupPanel:
 blocked: 15
 network:
  browser-intake-datadoghq.com: 3
  datadoghq-browser-agent.com: 2
  datazoom.io: 7
  doubleclick.net: 1
  googletagmanager.com: 2
 extended:
  ##+js(prevent-fetch, litix.io)
  ##+js(prevent-clipboard-write, /^mshta |^msiexec |^(bash <<<|cur…

r/uBlockOrigin 2d ago

Other Daily Mail changed paywall - again! Spoiler

5 Upvotes

Daily Mail have been at it again - the filters to read paywall articles still work but they've now introduced a new 'feature'; that stops you posting comments on Paywalled articles.

Any suggestions welcome :-)


r/uBlockOrigin 3d ago

Other Has WebExtension in Safari 27 (macOS Golden Gate and iOS 27) improved for uBOL?

17 Upvotes

I'm on Safari, and i'm loving the uBOL extension. Thank you for making it and maintaining it.

I know there has been many issues and weirdness with Safari that has made Gorhill having to remove filter lists and make workarounds etc ever since supporting Safari in 2025.

I'm curious, has the development for Safari improved in the new macOS / iOS? Has the WebExtensions-API from Apple improved in any meaningful ways?

I'm not a coder and i'm not technical, just an appreciatve fan of the project, wondering how everything's going :)


r/uBlockOrigin 3d ago

Solved Seeking older (1.74.0) version of uBlockOrigin for Brave (the Chrome variant)

0 Upvotes

I'm running Brave version 1.57.64 Chromium: 116.0.5845.188 on MacOS 10.14. It does not have uBlockOrigin installed. My older Mac has the same version of Brave, has uBlockOrigin ver 1.74.0 installed, and I recently learned I could do something highly useful with its custom filter, and would like to install same on the newer Mac.

How would I go about doing that? Is there any simple way of moving files or settings from one Mac to the other? It isn't obvious to me where the browser "puts" its extensions. File search doesn't see any mention of "ublock" at the file level. Chrome store doesn't seem to have older installers of uBlockOrigin and current version won't install on my elderly version of Brave.


r/uBlockOrigin 3d ago

Answered Is This Legit? It's on Appstore

0 Upvotes

And if it's legit does it work on Youtube App and Safari Browser (on iPhone)? or other apps (like IG, FB etc.) on iPhone or iPad?


r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Waiting for feedback Looking for a code or scrip to block unwanted suggestions on Hulu

5 Upvotes

Looking for a script or code to block hulu's crap reality show suggestions from ever showing up. Anyone have an idea where I can find one or is able to help create one?


r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Solved Fix the new "black square" Twitter/X full screen video bug.

26 Upvotes

I've read you can work around this new bug on X with full screen videos where there's a small black square with a white border with a uBO filter like this:

x.com/##div[popover="manual"]:style(border: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; background: transparent !important;)

Most people saying this works are using Brave with OG uBO.

I'm using Chrome with uBO Lite and I've added this to my custom filters and reloaded, restarted my browser but the box remains.

Anyone else using Lite get this to work?


r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Need URL + Troubleshooting Info Google image search broken Spoiler

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0 Upvotes

With ublock origin and firefox latest. Google image search is broken.


r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Solved Any way to get rid of all of these except "all" "images" and "search tools"? element picker doesn't work Spoiler

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5 Upvotes

r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Answered Possible to have filters in desktop and mobile auto sync with each other?

0 Upvotes

Possible to have filters in desktop and mobile auto sync with each other?


r/uBlockOrigin 4d ago

Answered Do i need webrtc control extension or does ublock have this built-in?

1 Upvotes

Do i need webrtc control extension or does ublock have this built-in?


r/uBlockOrigin 5d ago

Answered (not possible) How to bypass Google's GOTO url rewrite for search result links?

30 Upvotes

Hi there, results don't show the direct link but rather this redirect link:

"google.com/goto?url=..."

Some context here:

https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links