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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by beagle3 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:08AM (#17362543)
Yes.

Other than the issue of cosmetic filters (which I don't personally use), the main difference is that for uBlock you can subscribe to really good lists, collected and curated by a lot of people - so it is "defauly allow, except for these...", whereas uMatrix is "default deny, except for what you explicitly allowed".

I run both, occasionally have to allow something in uMatrix, never have to turn uBlock off.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by nikbackm on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:19AM (#17362582)
You can configure uBlock to use default deny as well by changing the mode [1].

It's not as fine-grained as uMatrix but works similarly.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by beagle3 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:23AM (#17362598)
Upvoted for the info, but I'll restate why I use both:

uBlock is my blacklist. uMatix is my whitelist. For various reasons, I occasionally need to skip the whitelist, but I never had a reason to turn off the blacklist in a few years of using uBlock.

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