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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by grive on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:26AM (#13151418)
It is important to use uBlock origin and not uBlock. The latter was an error.

Otherwise, it is impossible: the blacklist are the same, the capabilities are the same, the only difference being that ABP will allow some ads by design.

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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by ryao on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:35AM (#13151785)
ABP uses measurably more memory and CPU time too.
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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by summarite on Sunday December 11, 2016 @02:08PM (#13152560)
Which for any modern device isn't really a big deal...
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Re:German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking sof... by luca_ing on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:06AM (#13159026)
Any modern device connected to wall power.
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