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Deciding to completely censor (edit: in practice, since few users are likely to dare/bother to skip warnings) legitimate (although unethical) websites seems sketchy. What happens when the uBlock maintainers decide that Facebook/Google/etc goes too far with their ethics - will they block that?

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> completely censor

Hyperbole.

This merely acts as a warning. Notice the buttons at the bottom to disable the blocking temporarily or permanently.

Sure, and a number of anti-viruses allow you to ignore their warnings, but I'd bet the majority of users will trust their software to not steer them wrong

I don't use an ad blocker to be warned about unethical websites, I use it to block ads.

Then perhaps you should try a different ad blocker.

uBlock doesn't call itself an ad blocker, but a blocker. Also, checking the default block lists and/or removing some is the first thing I do after installing a new one. If that sounds like to much work, stick with the defaults and click the humongous "disable blocking permanently" button. Not sure what all the fuss is about.

What? You have complete control over which lists of filters to use.

My understanding is that this is the default though? How many people stray from the default.

uBlock has a lot of external lists as default. I don't think uBlock team maintains the lists, and it just makes sense to include lists created by others. If you made such extension how would you be sure the lists included by default works as intended if you are not going to maintain the lists?

I have today installed uBlock and it didn't block the whole page by default.

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