uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. (by gorhill)
ClearUrls
By KevinRoebert
| uBlock | ClearUrls | |
|---|---|---|
| 3,020 | 24 | |
| 51,693 | - | |
| 4.6% | - | |
| 9.8 | - | |
| 2 days ago | - | |
| JavaScript | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2025-03-10.
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
uBlock Origin always worked best in Firefox anyhow:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- uBlock's Origin "medium" blocking mode
- About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"
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Starlink in the Falklands, a National Emergency Situation?
With these internet connections, I really hope the local techies are helping set people up uBlock Origin, running something like ClearURLs to short-circuit unnecessary redirects (I assume GEO latency), and running LocalCDN to avoid re-downloading the same libraries and assets over and over. Probably also good to install something that defaults Youtube to 360p, and Pihole for mobile/smart devices.
I would run uBO in Medium Mode[1], but I expect that's probably too much for most non-technical users.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
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Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
*uMatrix is unmaintained, and uBlock Origin can do fine-grained control – it just requires the “advanced user” setting for some reason, even if you expand the panels all the way. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/quick-guide:-popup-us... (see “I am an advanced user!” expanding section at the bottom)
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Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet
No issues here on Firefox 128.4.0esr, even with uBlock Origin medium mode[1] blocking 31% of the page.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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Is Chrome the New IE?
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- Ask HN: Which browser extensions could you not do without?
- uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
ClearUrls
Posts with mentions or reviews of ClearUrls.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.
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SpaceX will start delivering Starlink for aviation from 2023
ClearURLs locally re-writes common "bounce" redirect links, avoiding a double round-trip when clicking on Google search links (among many others). I supplement this with Redirector for some light automation (old.reddit.com etc), but that's probably overkill.
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ClearURLs is there a way to Whitelist or ?
According it Addon page in AMO, ClearURL seem actually on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
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How do I cleanup a Thunderbird Reddit email link that I open in Firefox?
You can use Request Control to remove specific or all parameters from URLs from certain domains and do all kinds of redirections with them. If you find it too complicated, use the ClearURLs support page to ask them to clean up Reddit links for you.
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New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters
Here's the source code. What attack surface is it adding?
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[Android] [Kiwi browser] When i search something on Google and than try to copy link of website it doesn't allow me to copy original link but add some google link before it. I've to open the website to find original link. How to remove google.com/url?sa=blahblah...
CleadURLs might be useful? It's supposed to do this:
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Germany to send weapons from its army stockpiles - including 1000 anti-tank and 500 surface-to-air missiles
Check out this page and this extension to clean URL automatically, they get way shorter oftentimes.
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Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
To add to your list: ClearURLs, LocalCDN
- Lego Wreath - 3D printed for the holidays
- A couple of questions about ClearURLs
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Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?
Most likely quite low. I let my addons handle that.
https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
What are some alternatives?
When comparing uBlock and ClearUrls you can also consider the following projects:
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
adfilt - The place where I, DandelionSprout, store my web filter lists for countless topics, including my Nordic adblock list. As simple as that, really.
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
Neat-URL - Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.