I need to give uBlock another try. I use and love uMatrix, and was hoping someone would step up to maintain a fork of it, but six months later it is apparent that will not be the case (and is far outside my expertise).
For some reason uBlock never clicked with me. The various global blocking settings I tried either broke too many sites or let too many annoyances through, and I found the process for allowing/blocking third-party resources on a per-site basis was clunkier than other blockers like uMatrix or Privacy Badger.
I really respect what gorhill has done, and keep hearing great things about new privacy preserving techniques being adding to uBlock that go beyond what other blockers do, so I really want to like it. Given how so many people love it and don't have these complaints, I'm probably approaching it with the wrong mindset / usage model, that is causing me to fight against it rather than work with it, so I need to step back and try again with a blank mind.
>I found the process for allowing/blocking third-party resources on a per-site basis was clunkier than other blockers like uMatrix or Privacy Badger.
It's clunkier yes (requires editing the static filters list by hand), but you might get used to it. My own list is huge (~700 lines across 75 web properties) and took some time to create, but now I only have to touch it once a month on average.
I don't know how long ago you used it, but it's install and forget and works great. Maybe once every few months I'll use it to hide a frame on a random site.
For some reason uBlock never clicked with me. The various global blocking settings I tried either broke too many sites or let too many annoyances through, and I found the process for allowing/blocking third-party resources on a per-site basis was clunkier than other blockers like uMatrix or Privacy Badger.
I really respect what gorhill has done, and keep hearing great things about new privacy preserving techniques being adding to uBlock that go beyond what other blockers do, so I really want to like it. Given how so many people love it and don't have these complaints, I'm probably approaching it with the wrong mindset / usage model, that is causing me to fight against it rather than work with it, so I need to step back and try again with a blank mind.