I switched to uBlock Origin Lite as soon as it was available and I haven't seen a single ad. It works fine.
And now I have one less thing to worry about - my adblocker extension getting compromised through a supply chain attack.
And now I have one less thing to worry about - my adblocker extension getting compromised through a supply chain attack.
The ambient permissions that uBlock Origin requires on all sites is too risky.
I see it as good hygiene to remove wide ambient permissions.
The Lite version is worse than the original in every way.
I used the lite version while using chromium for a little while and it worked ok for me.
The issue I had with it wasn't that it didn't effectively block ads, it's that you can't block arbitrary elements with the zapper (afaik). I use the element zapper to block non-ad related things sometimes.
For me, I'm torn on whether the extra security is worth this limitation or not, and so far I have went back to using the normal ublock, and I have went back to using firefox because chromium crashed fairly often when using the wayland renderer.
There is some way you can grant ublock lite more permissions on specific sites, I'm not sure what this does, and I don't think it brings back the element zapper, but it would be cool if it did.