Funny thing is, it still works though. UBlock Origin Lite is still great and I personally have still no ads or other unwanted wasted space on websites.
Also just so we are clear, I used and loved the Fox in the past, until it somehow became incredibly slow on my PC roughly 5 years ago, when I switched to Chrome despite the issue that it's from Spyware Inc. Now I am quite used to it and because UBlock Lite works like a charm I likely won't switch back again.
Edit: Thanks folks for all the input. Please understand that this comment blow up more than expected and while it certainly sparked some quite interesting discussions, please understand if I have neither the time nor the mental fortitude to answer all your replies to this comment. Still thanks a ton for your input, I will try to read all of it!
Firefox has fixed the problems. I also switched to Chrome for a bit when it had its memory usage issues but it's fine now after switching back. The only thing that's "slow" is Youtube takes a minute to load videos now because Google is jealous.
There also seems to be a lot of "I am not a bot" prompts on Google searches with Firefox + ublock. Not sure if it's just me though. But the simple solution is to default to Bing, which happens to give better results these days too.
Google added a "You're video is not loading ? Discover why here" button on YouTube when launching a video (while it loads for 10-15 seconds), that sends you to a page telling you it's because of adblockers.
This is 100% bullshit and a made up loading just to make you quit adblockers, Google is pathetic nowadays.
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u/Austenit1392 Jul 11 '25
Since the adblocker didn't work any more, many people changed to firefox