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A comment on uBlock vs. uBlock Origin (2015). Parent comment

Re:uBlock vs. uBlock Origin (2015) by staticassertion on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:01AM (#14335887)
Using browser supported methods should be more efficient. Content security policy (what's used in ublock) means requests don't even get made, and the browser 'knows' this, whereas if your DNS just keeps getting blocked you may still be attempting the query.

But having a DNS fallback for other applications is nice too.

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Re:uBlock vs. uBlock Origin (2015) by notum on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:07AM (#14335898)
By far the biggest perk of this method is expanding the privacy and protection blanket on to platforms that make it incredibly difficult to otherwise block ads and tracking.(cough stock Android).

It's also nice to see 50k blocked attempts at the end of a slow day.

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