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I have to wonder what is the appeal of the lite version over the OG on Firefox. I had previously assumed that the lite version only existed for browsers that blocked the functionality of the full version. Meanwhile, I'm still running uMatrix in Firefox.

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The lite version has better performance since it’s effectively just a bunch of MV3 blocklists.

Are there any downsides to that approach? No custom CSS, for instance?

It lacks a lot of features compared to the "real" uBlock Origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

> The lite version has better performance since it’s effectively just a bunch of MV3 blocklists.

I think in practice ublock origin lite results in worse overall performance than regular ublock origin since it's worse at blocking ads(which cause more performance issues than the ad-blocker itself).

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