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For those who use uBlock Origin Lite, have you noticed any issues/deficiencies in what ads are blocked? I haven't.

I use Firefox with (non-lite) uBlock Origin, and occasionally fire up Chrome (with uBO Lite) for testing. The main issue that I run into is that uBO lite filters can't vary per-domain, so in order to rule out an ad-blocking-false-positive on something I'm developing, I have to turn it off for _all_ sites, not just localhost. (Actual false positives are rare, but needing to check is not so rare.)

That's not true, the on/off toggle is per-site in uBlock Origin Lite.

...Huh. I just rechecked, and indeed it was. I may have been remembering a limitation that was present temporarily when the MV3 switchover happened.

I have not really had any issues with ads using uBlock Origin Lite. It's like the complainers live in an alternate reality or just listened to some influencer and never actually checked.

I do miss the rules that let me remove stuff based like CSS like selectors. The strange thing is, even though uBlock Origin Lite doesn't support that feature it's still totally possible to make an extension that does that. Maybe the specific thing uBlock Origin was doing is not possible but making an extension that follows rules and hides/deletes elements with different rules per site is still fully possible under manifest v3

But you can do this with uBOL? I’m not sure what you mean. I have multiple rules to hide elements on various sites. With HN I hide elements and can give it a custom CSS dark mode through uBOL. Works on both desktop and iOS.

My experience using uBlock Origin Lite on iOS is that some particularly intrusive ads will figure out a way to load, like local news sites from the US, and many sites will be fully broken (missing entire content portions, content doesn’t scroll, entire page can’t be interacted with). These issues simply don’t occur on uBlock Origin but only exist as an artifact of aggressively blocking elements without applying fixes to unbreak sites.

I’ve found uBlock Origin Lite (and every other non-uBlock Origin blocker) to struggle with websites using Ad-Shield. (i.e. the entire website breaks.)

Haven't noticed any issue, the main limitation is the lack of mobile support on Chrome, but that has always been the case.

I'm so grateful for Firefox on Android

In the short time I've used it I haven't noticed any appreciable difference.

Same here. although these days i prefer the mix uBlock Stripped + 3P-Matrix-lite.

[uBlock Stripped]

https://github.com/Kees1958/uBol-stripped

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-stripped-%E2...

[3P-Matrix-lite]

https://github.com/Kees1958/3P-Matrix-lite

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/3p-matrix-lite/olji...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308184

It seems to block most, if not all, ads but I wonder whether it blocks tracking as well as uBO.

I honestly haven't really noticed a difference in ads after switching to the Lite version. It seems to work well enough.

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