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About "Why uBlock Origin works so much better than Pi‑hole does?"

iam-py-test edited this page Dec 13, 2021 · 6 revisions

Off the top of my head:

  • Cancels network requests early within the browser
  • Pattern-based filtering on whole URL
    • example: &act=ads_
  • Context information
    • example: $script,third-party,domain=imgbox.com
    • point-and-click to enable/disable blocking behavior on a per-site basis:
      • JavaScript
      • Large media elements
      • Remote fonts
      • Etc.
    • you can see what specific network requests are made by what specific page, i.e. you can fully inform yourself of what specific pages/sites are causing your browser to do
  • Ability to redirect to neutered version of a resource
    • example: ||google-analytics.com/ga.js$script,redirect=google-analytics.com/ga.js
  • Cosmetic filtering, i.e. the manipulation of DOM elements in the browser
    • example: ##.AdHeader
  • Scriptlet injection filtering, i.e. the injection of JS scriptlets to modify the behavior of a page -- useful to defuse anti-content blockers
    • example: wallstreet-online.de##+js(nostif, userHasAdblocker)
  • HTML filtering, i.e. the removal of DOM elements from a document before it is parsed by the browser
    • example: wetteronline.de##^script:has-text(runCount)
  • Ability to deal with unwanted popups
    • example: &link_type=offer$popup,third-party
  • Ability to remove tracking parameters from websites
    • example: ||wuzhuiso.com^$removeparam=src
  • You can easily (narrowly/broadly) override any filter from the filter lists through simple point-and-click operations to customize your own filtering or to quickly fix sites broken as a result of overzealous filters

Main advantage of Pi-Hole is that it filters network traffic from all devices on your network, but filtering is blunt compared to what you can do through a browser extension.

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