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Comment by shandor | Hacker News Reader

> very high maintenance

Reading this, I was actually surprised to find that for some reason or other this has gotten a lot better for me during the 2+ years I've been using uMatrix.

At first it's rather annoying to enable CDNs and stuff for the sites you frequent, but mostly I've started noticing that the sites that break for basically no good reason are the ones that a sane person probably shouldn't visit anyway. So maybe it is just that I've started steering clear of those sites.

Also as a side note, uMatrix is awesome. Many times even on HN I'm surprised to find comments complaining about pop ups or something, and realize that uMatrix silently made my browsing actually tolerable.

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I love uMatrix. It removes all annoyances like customer support popups, chat bots, basically anything other than the main domain.

It is high maintainance, only if you visit many new sites every day. For a single site/domain, set it once and go.

There are built in 'recipes' allowing YT embeds, twitter embeds, google capthas if a site wants it.

Once you globally whitelist CDN's (cloudflare and others), it's enough. For popular sites (reddit, YT, twitter use the Recipes)

Oh, people are globally allowing CDNs? This has been a major thorn in my side running uBlock Origin on "medium mode" (block all third-party scripts and frames) for years now, but I figured globally allowing CDNs—or almost any sites, for that matter—was defeating the purpose of uBO medium mode, which is to protect you from unknown tracking scripts, or even worse, objectively malicious unknown scripts. (I say "unknown" as opposed to "known by way of already being on one of the many filter lists".)

I should try globally allowing the CDNs as you suggest and see how it feels. At that point, though, I wonder how much I'll be blocking that won't already be blocked via the blocking lists.

What are these recipes? Video embeds and captchas are my biggest headaches with it now.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Ruleset-recipes

Recipes are sets of rules needed to make a website work. If there is a recipe available for a page you are visiting you will be able to click on the puzzle icon in uMatrix and enable it.

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