Off-topic: I really wish uMatrix was brought to life again. It had such a beautifully simple and efficient UI. uBO's filetring is close, but... not the same.
Big thank you to gorhill (and co.) for making the net useable!
Big thank you to gorhill (and co.) for making the net useable!
Yes, very much. I'd love to be able to contribute money somewhere to make this happen!
UBO seems to work ok as long as you don't need to tweak anything, but then falls apart. The uMatrix UI is so much superior, I can't ever imagine being able to live without it.
Fishy things get painted red, hopefully good things get painted green - reload and try again, if it didn't work.
I sure hope, some maintainers pop up and keep this thing alive!
That's an enormous amount of work (for someone totally unfamiliar with the codebase that would have to learn) to undertake on the off chance that it would be accepted.
That's the day many of us will stop updating our browsers.
Enabling this in uBO really opened my eyes to how fuzzy the distinction between first-party and third-party is. Sites can have all types of business arrangements with different privacy implications, ranging from relatively harmless (hosting), to moderate (CDN), to invasive (ad tracking). uMatrix and other blockers have used the domain name as a proxy-variable to measure whether something should be trusted or not, but it is increasing becoming a poor metric. With CNAME uncloaking enabled, maintaining default deny, and allow only what is needed approach becomes quite a bit more work, as it ends up blocking a bunch of necessary content. But without you are allowing a fair bit of tracking you shouldn't.
After a few months of trying to use uBO like uMatrix, I found that using the curated deny-lists was a more tractable approach than maintaining my own allow-list, and thus don't miss the uMatrix interface as much as I expected.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#u...