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I too use umatrix, but someone said ubo had an advanced setting that was like umatrix, so I was thinking about switching.

Is this true or not?

wait, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=25920135

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That comment:

> umatrix is built into ublock origin now, just enable advanced mode in ublock.

I have advanced mode enabled and don't see anything remotely resembling the uMatrix source vs type grid. There's a couple overly cryptic { allow block other } columns with rows corresponding to the source and that's it as far as I can tell. No { css image frame etc } columns in my UI.

On the uBO popup, if you click "More" on the bottom left a few times, you eventually get a uMatrix-ish grid on the left side of the popup. (Not 100% sure if that's what you're looking for.) I agree with other commenters though that I don't really understand the uBO grid and found the uMatrix grid much more immediately accessible.

Yeah that's the grid I was referring to. It isn't the same as the detailed 2D breakdown that uMatrix gives you. Instead it simply has a blanket { green grey red } for each source.

(Also I can never seem to remember precisely what each unlabeled colored box does. I never have that problem with uMatrix.)

The uMatrix 2d grid is a vastly superior UI than anything uBO offers for the same functionality. I keep using both because of that. uBO for blocking ads and hiding elements, especially on my phone, and uMatrix to selectively block JS and everything else.

Yes, that's what I tried switching to using (from uMatrix + 'simple mode' uBO for cosmetic stuff only before).

It's just not as granular - you lose the 'type of thing to allow/block' dimension from the uMatrix matrix.

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