uBlock/dist/DESCRIPTION

45 lines
1.7 KiB
Plaintext
Raw Normal View History

An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there.
Usage: The big fat power button in the popup is to permanently disable/enable µBlock for the current web site. It applies to the current web site only, it is not a global power button.
Flexible, it's more than an "ad blocker": it can also read and create filters from hosts files.
Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced:
- EasyList
- EasyPrivacy
- Malware domains
- Long-lived malware domains
- Peter Lowes Ad server list
- Malware Domains List
More lists are available for you to select if you wish:
- Fanboys Enhanced Tracking List
- Dan Pollocks hosts file
- hpHostss Ad and tracking servers
- MVPS HOSTS
- Spam404
- Etc.
Of course, the more filters enabled, the higher the memory footprint. Yet, even after adding Fanboy's two extra lists, hpHostss Ad and tracking servers, µBlock still has a lower memory footprint than other very popular blockers out there.
***
Since the review area does not allow the author to answer, with this project I decided to answer through the project's home site, so hopefully this will of some help to answer question, or correct inaccuracies (which may also occur in good reviews):
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/My-answer-to-Chrome-store-reviews-where-appropriate
***
From the author of HTTP Switchboard. Some work from contributors of HTTP Switchboard was also imported (translations).
Free.
Open source (GPLv3)
For users by users.
It's quite an early version, keep this in mind when you review.
Project change log:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Change-log