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by aninhumer 3304 days ago
I tried using uBlock (EDIT: uMatrix) for a while, but I felt like it was a lot of hassle, and most of the time it still wasn't granular enough to actually block the things I wanted to without breaking sites. It seemed like usually all of the bullshit javascript making sites sluggish came from the same domain as the few bits I might actually want. (Or at least needed to make the site useful.)
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gorhill 3304 days ago
> wasn't granular enough to actually block the things I wanted to without breaking sites

I don't understand the criticism: it's no less granular than NoScript. If considering only the dynamic filtering panel[1], it can be argued it's more granular given that one can block inline-script tags only, and also one can block/allow on a per-site basis.

Static and dynamic URL filtering of course allows you to filter on a per-URL basis.

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

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aninhumer 3304 days ago
> it's no less granular than NoScript.

Sorry, to clarify, I wasn't comparing uMatrix to NoScript, merely commenting that it didn't seem particularly useful to me when I tried it.

I was considering trying NoScript at some point, but from what you've said, it doesn't sound like it would be much better for my purposes?

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