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Comment by DDebbieDDowner | Hacker News Reader

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but in this test uBlock Origin failed miserably, to say the least.

https://avlab.pl/test-web-browser-extensions-protection-agai...

Since when is uBlock an Anti-Virus?

If you benchmark the latest Ferrari against a wooden boat for driving on water you will get the same results as this test.

None of the other browser extensions in the test are Anti-Viruses yet they seem to block fine many of the malware threats

Furthermore, what is the purpose of Malvertising filter list by Disconnect, Malware Domain List, Malware domains, in uBlock Origin if they can't protect the user from malwares?

What. Everyone of them is an anti-virus extension except uBlock Origin:

Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, CheckPoint SandBlast Agent, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Panda, Windows Defender,... All are extensions made to enhance the effectiveness of it's own security suite.

uBlock is just a content-blocker.

Fair enough, uBlock Origin advertises itself as following (from the github page):

uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites -- through EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, various lists of malware sites, and uBlock Origin's own filter lists.

However, I assume that most people still use it mainly for blocking ads. And for that it is excellent.

can those companies provide free access to their blocking lists they created based on their research? ublock will work just as well if so.comparing paid products to freeware is madness in the malwertising space

Judging by these tests Google safe browsing (as Chrome in these tests) is more than enough for malware blocking https://malwaretips.com/threads/updated-24-11-2018-browser-e...

The blocker's effectiveness is only as good as its blocklists.

uBO, however, is the most efficient blocker out there. And it comes with some of the best default blocklists for blocking ads and trackers.

uBlock Origin + Google's Safe Browsing (or SmartScreen if you're an Edge user) should be enough for just about anyone. Furthermore one of the strengths of uBO is the ability to use dynamic filtering[1] which bypasses the filter list problem entirely.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

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