What are the limitations of uBlock Origin Lite compared to the original extension?
One massive upside is there's now a less comprehensive mode that doesn't allow the extension to view and edit the complete DOM of every page, which has actually made me comfortable enough to use it for regular browsing as opposed to just turning UBO on for certain sites.
We can finally block ads in our webpages and have ads! Win-win. This couldn’t be ever achieved without the truly titanic coordination efforts from google.
1. Ad blocking on Safari has worked like this for years and none of the major ad networks have chosen to act on that fact.
2. It has always been possible for ads to work around UBO in various ways but no major ad network has even tried (e.g. server-side embedding of randomly obfuscated JS).
It has always been possible for ads to work around UBO in various ways but no major ad network has even tried
Cause arms race with a dynamic blocker is expensive and futile. You are trying to s/UBO/UBO Lite/ in this sentence and convince things will work the same way, they won’t.
In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage because many filters can't be converted into DNR rules (see log of conversion for technical details).
Also note that some of those won't be related to anti-adblock and some sites may use a different method for anti-adblock.
If you can show a site that definitively displays ads in Lite but not uBo, then proide it.
Not really. Not sure why you’re expecting me to dig through the sites and ads networks that don’t use differentiating techniques too often due to basically non-existing ubol userbase to this date. We’ll see how it goes in just a few months, I guess. I’ll be baffled if this fuzz was really about user security and not pushing ads down the throats. I’m also expecting to see more ads on mobile safari for it becoming compatible with the new widespread ad vulnerability.
If you encounter them sufficiently frequently that they are a problem, you should encounter one over the next 14 days while this discussion is open and be able to share the link. If you can't, then either there is no evidence of the problem you assert exists, or the problem occurs so infrequently as to be of negligible concern.
I would assume that once uBlock Origin Lite is highly used it will rapidly become worthless as companies start targeting it