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I can't live without uBlock Origin and uMatrix, and was sad to see uMatrix archived [0]. Still works great, but I'm wondering what will happen long term. Anyone also use both and since drop uMatrix for something else, or just uBlock? How is it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973

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It's been really interesting to watch recent gorhill tweets where he describes some laboured efforts to type in rules to block content in ublock that you can do in umatrix with the click of a button.

I don't understand it, but I agree that unlock+umatrix on desktop and mobile has been the best thing about browsing for years.

I think maybe he wants to consolidate Dev effort and I completely understand. He's probably the only person I'm patriotic about right now.

uMatrix is so fundamental to my web experience, I dread the day it stops working.

As I remember it, you really shouldn't be using both at the same time. Don't remember why, only that it's a bad idea. And you can set up uBlock to do most of what uMatrix does anyway.

It's because there was some overlap in their functionality.

What I did was disable the overlapping functionality in uBlock Origin, and let uMatrix handle the rest.

FWIW, I use uBO together with NoScript, on both desktop and on mobile (Android). I've never used uMatrix, and I've been told by others that it was a superior experience, but if you want a combination that is still being supported, I can recommend this combo.

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