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uBlock Origin Suggested Settings

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Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense. The suggestions to add some more of the privacy filters is reasonable, but why are these settings any better than someone else's?

The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.

> Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense.

it does for those concerned with their privacy - i recommend to my readers to disable JS globally and allow it per-host where needed

as for cosmetic filters, processing them consumes more CPU

also these are suggested settings based on my experience and tailored to fit the Firefox config guides i wrote - i didn't state they were better than everyone elses

I suggest providing a beginner whitelist at least that includes popular cdns and such. People without umatrix will most likely put themselves at risk by blanket-allowing on uncooperative sites when all they need to do is allow Cloudflare.

> The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.

provide evidence where i'm wrong and i'll be happy to correct, but rubber-stamping someones content as "spammy", whatever that means, is lazy

Disabling JavaScript globally seems like overkill.. I mean I couldn't even load YouTube with that option enabled.

The idea, I assume, is that you disable javascript globally and then enable it on a per-site basis. There's a button the in the uBlock origin menu to enable js for the current site.

correct

This is definitely overkill. Javscript should only be disable on sites that abuse it, or don't need it (news sites)

...or globally for those that care about privacy (then allow per-host as needed)

No script is a pain because it doesn't sync settings across other signed in browsers. It's great on the one computer, sucks for others.

I wish author posted backup of the settings, so I can import them directly into my FF.

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