Strikes a sublime balance between user accessibility, performance and resource consumptionĪs it happens, uBlock Origin ticks all of the boxes with valiance. However, as a mundane user, what you might care about is related to aspects such as ease of use, performance, and resource consumption. While this might sound appealing to advanced users or ubergeeks, if you're a mainstream user, then you surely do not care too much about such under-the-hood wizardry. Better yet, you can add custom, third party filter by quickly visiting the designated section from the Settings page. It's backed up by a couple of very powerful filters, such as EasyList, Peter Lowe's Ad server list, EasyPrivacy and Malware Domains list. Enforced by some of the most powerful ad-blocking filters To the rescue comes uBlock Origin, a highly customizable and powerful Chrome extension (also available for Firefox and Opera) that takes its mission to block third party ads, trackers and other possibly malware-related content extremely seriously. It's no wonder, especially since most ads actually slow down the website loading process, not to mention that they make the layout of various webpages feel uninviting due to tons of clutter.
Users can temporarily or permanently disable blocking the site by using the buttons at the bottom of the block page, or click the "Go Back" button to go back to the previous webpage.While we agree that not all Internet ads are "evil," if given the chance, most of us would surely be better off without them. The block page will look something like the image below with the heading, "uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading." In this example, the page has been flagged as an ad and tracking site. Once in a very rare while, uBlock Origin will see a pop-up page or a server address that has been flagged. To reset uBlock Origin back to defaults, click the "Open the dashboard" button (fourth one over below the power icon).Īt the bottom of the page, click "Reset to default settings."
This will enable uBlock Origin for the website. To re-enable the ad blocker, click the grayed out power button icon and refresh the page.
This will be remembered the next time you visit the site. Alternatively, you can also Ctrl-click to turn off uBlock Origin only for the current page rather than the entire website/domain. Click the large blue power button to turn off uBlock Origin for the current site. The uBlock Origin's popup window will appear.Then, click the pin next to uBlock Origin icon.) (If you don't see the icon, click on the icon that looks like a gray puzzle piece. In the upper right corner of the Chrome browser, click on the uBlock Origin icon in the toolbar. Go to the website where you want to disable uBlock Origin.If you ever need to change the behavior of uBlock Origin, you can use the instructions below to temporarily or permanently disable it for a specific webpage or website. The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites. One of the primary features of uBlock Origin is to serve as an "ad blocker" that hides advertisements on a webpage.