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Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite

Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.on GitHub, is one of the biggest unsung heroes of the modern web. He's the man behind two of the leading browser extensions to block unwanted advertising, the classic. They both do the same job in significantly different ways, so depending on your preferred browser, you now must make a choice.

So, if you use Chrome, or a Chrome-based browser – which is most of them – then you will soon be compelled to remove uBO andIt would surely be overly cynical of us to suggest that issues with ad blockers were a foreseeable difficulty now that To sum up, if you have a Mozilla-family browser, uBlock Origin is the easier option. If you have a Chrome-family browser, such as Microsoft Edge, then, very soon, uBlock Origin Lite will be the only version available to you.

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