From 61cd146aa79f1c080c03ce145659be21fdcff511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Trammell Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:42:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] English grammar fixes --- Blocking-mode:-medium-mode.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode.md b/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode.md index 158d682..ff10efb 100644 --- a/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode.md +++ b/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode.md @@ -4,22 +4,22 @@ Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically whitelisted. Unlike NoScript however, you can easily point-and-click to block/allow scripts _on a per-site basis_. -Blocking-wise, this is one significant leap from [easy mode](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-easy-mode). However, be ready to accept you will have to un-break web sites, though at a lesser rate than [hard mode](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode), since passive 3rd-party resources (i.e. images, css) are not blocked in medium mode. +Blocking-wise, this is one significant leap from [easy mode](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-easy-mode). However, be ready to accept that you will have to un-break websites, though at a lesser rate than [hard mode](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode), since passive 3rd-party resources (i.e. images, css) are not blocked in medium mode. -This is where you start to use [dynamic filtering](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering), a feature available only when you tell uBlock Origin that you are an [advanced user](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-features). Be sure to read [the guide](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering) before, it is assumed that you understand well how dynamic filtering works in order to use effectively medium mode. +This is where you start to use [dynamic filtering](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering), a feature available only effectively use medium mode. ![3rd-party scripts are blocked by default](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/9021740/41eac000-3821-11e5-9842-c4c6fea573c3.png)
3rd-party scripts and frames are blocked by default. -Using medium mode will improve significantly your browser performance, and similarly reduce significantly your privacy exposure when compared to easy mode. +Using medium mode will significantly improve your browser performance, and similarly significantly reduce your privacy exposure compared to easy mode. ##### Characteristics - Web pages will load significantly faster compared to the [_easy mode_](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-easy-mode). - Your privacy exposure will be significantly reduced compared to easy mode. -- You no longer depends mostly on 3rd-party filter lists to dictate what is blocked or not. - - The static filter lists are still used to mop up whatever network requests is not blocked in this mode -- so double protection. -- High likelihood of web pages being broken: you have to be ready and willing to fix them when this happen. +- You no longer depend mostly on 3rd-party filter lists to dictate what is blocked or not. + - The static filter lists are still used to mop up whatever network requests are not blocked in this mode -- so double protection. +- High likelihood of web pages being broken: you have to be ready and willing to fix them when this happens. - Keep in mind though that as you build your ruleset for the sites you usually visit, you will spend less and less time fixing web pages. ##### How to enable this mode @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ With one click or two, you can easily fall back into lesser blocking mode, if ev To fall back into [easy mode](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-easy-mode): - Set a local noop rule for the _3rd-party script_ cell:
![3rd-party scripts allowed](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/9775590/7777b176-571e-11e5-9647-12711e53df21.png) -- Set a local noop rule for the _3rd-party frames_ cell (optional, as blocking 3rd-party frames is less likely to break web sites):
+- Set a local noop rule for the _3rd-party frames_ cell (optional, as blocking 3rd-party frames is less likely to break websites):
![3rd-party frames allowed](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/9775665/ec770238-571e-11e5-9d63-a90e4e5d76ba.png) - If you want the rules to stick, click the padlock to make them permanent. -Using local noop rules ensure that the resulting lesser blocking mode applies _only_ to the current site, so that medium mode is still enforced everywhere else. \ No newline at end of file +Using local noop rules ensure that the resulting lesser blocking mode applies _only_ to the current site so that medium mode is still enforced everywhere else. \ No newline at end of file