caniuse VS uBlock

Compare caniuse vs uBlock and see what are their differences.

caniuse

Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com (by Fyrd)

uBlock

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. (by gorhill)
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caniuse uBlock
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caniuse

Posts with mentions or reviews of caniuse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
  • Free Resources Every Web Developer Should Know About
    15 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Can I Use (https://caniuse.com/)
  • Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
    > Is it though?

    In my experience it's the buggiest browser out of the big three, and is often missing basic features like e.g.:

    https://caniuse.com/?search=opus

    Supported in Firefox for *12 years* now, in Chrome for 10, still no support in Safari.

    They only "support" Opus audio in their special snowflake '.caf' container, which is super buggy and the last time I checked no open source program could even generate Opus '.caf' files that could be played by Safari on all Apple platforms. I ended up writing a custom converter which takes a standard '.opus' file and remuxes it on-the-fly (I only store '.opus' files on my server) into Safari-compatible '.caf' files, taking special care to massage it so that it avoids all of their demuxer/decoder bugs. You shouldn't have to do this to have cross-browser high quality audio!

  • Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    Seems like browser support is pretty universal, even says so in the article

    > All browsers support streaming HTML

    And the caniuse is promising: https://caniuse.com/?search=slot

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
    Well I'll be! In my mind I had this clear picture of Firefox implementing it.

    It correct, it was only Chrome: https://caniuse.com/?search=html%20import

  • IPissed: Apple is after web capabilities to protect close to 100B App Store Tax
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20bluetooth

    which might be great because you have the choice...

    and you can use open source chromium or brave (like the jvm to run cross platform java) to run web apps seemlessly that need web bluetooth or such but use safari or firefox for personal use if you find them more secure

    I mean using chromium engine as the running environment where chromium only ever runs special trusted web domains and never goes to other "malicious" web domains that may fuck up iOS as Apple claims would be still a secure choice

    like you will not download spyware from Apple Store because you are an adult not because Apple can protect you there

  • WebAssembly Playground
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
    I'm developing a wasm game, and currently I am targeting WebGL2 in order to run in iOS Safari.

    Me (and others, I'm sure) are currently waiting for WebGPU [1] to land in Safari so it will make sense to target it.

    WebGPU allows for simplified porting of desktop apps to the web, such as WGSL shaders [2]

    WebGPU will be the next big thing, and currently it is enabled on Chrome Windows/macOS, and can be enabled in Firefox Nightly with a config setting.

    Hopefully, 2024 will be the year of WebGPU!

    1: https://caniuse.com/?search=webgpu

    2: https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/

  • Why Isn't the <HTML> Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
    > a lot of the data on the site actually comes from MDN

    Eh... not really.

    The feature support matrix (as linked on CanIUse) comes from the browser-compat-data repo. Here's the HTML element's source data: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/html/el...

    This doesn't contain the testing and usage info that CanIUse cites for support, though, just which browser versions included which features.

    CanIUse also points to their own repo, which contains a lot of data: https://github.com/fyrd/caniuse

    But I can't find an easy entry point to find where they're getting the numbers for a specific element. The data on there seems to be primarily for features.

    So the more precise question is, where is CanIUse getting HTML element testing and usage numbers from? Because that seems to be the issue.

  • The web just gets better with Interop 2024
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2024
    I meant across all browsers since Interop is about raising the bar on all browser capability.

    Right now, no other browsers support those features.

    https://caniuse.com/?search=leading-trim

  • Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
    > A new version of Safari shipped 17 times in the last 28 month

    > Yes, not as frequent as monthly releases, but Apple shipped 7 Safari updates on iOS in 2023.

    That's a very recent change: prior to 2022 Apple had far fewer updates to Safari on both macOS and iOS - and still witholds Safari updates from older iOS versions - for example, there was only 1 macOS Safari update per year between 2008 and 2015, and only 2 updates per year from 2015 to 2022; while things were just as sparse on iOS.

    The data is all here: click on the "Date relative" view on any of the items on https://caniuse.com/?search=webkit

  • Starting to write CSS in 2023 will be different
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2024
    Baseline is coming to caniuse.com soon! This blog post will introduce this integration and explore some of the features included in Baseline 2023. According to the new definition of benchmark , the feature lifecycle is divided into two stages. The first option is newly launched , and then fully launched after 30 months. If a feature is interoperable in the following browsers, it will become part of the new features provided by Baseline:

uBlock

Posts with mentions or reviews of uBlock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing caniuse and uBlock you can also consider the following projects:

VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.

Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows

bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.

ClearUrls

AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance

uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type

brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google