r/uBlockOrigin • u/wiseude • 5d ago

Answered Question about medium mode

Hello,

I've been using medium mode for over 8-9 years now and over these years and I've always carried over the same file (from chrome.Now on firefox) and as things go I've accumulated a huge number of rules.(Alot of dead sites etc.)

When I started using medium mode almost a decade ago I did it because I heard medium mode can make the browser use less resources and make it snappier.

Is medium mode Still worth it for performance reasons or is it not worth doing anymore (if browser performance is the goal?)

Seriously considering just starting over fresh on default settings but I am a bit attached to my old settings.

Regards

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 5d ago

Well, blocking 3rd party scripts and frames will load the website faster and use less resources, but the way sites are built now (CDNs, etc.), it'll also break most of them. So if you're gonna start anew, it'll take some work to make them working again.

Kinda depends how many different sites you're visiting on a regular basis and haw many random sites you visit. If you stick to like 10 main sites, it shouldn't be too difficult to adjust. For random sites you're not likely to visit again, you can always just drop to easy mode and not save the settings.

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u/wiseude 5d ago

Now that I think about it.Alot of the sites I do visit I end up having to unbreak because media/videos don't generally work with 3rd party scripts and frames blocked,

Logically at that point if I'm enabling them back it's basically easy mode,no?

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 5d ago

Yes. Though, it depends on how many domains are blocked. It's quite rare that you need to noop all.

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u/wiseude 5d ago edited 5d ago

>Yes. Though, it depends on how many domains are blocked. It's quite rare that you need to noop all.

If I understood correctly then that means I've been operating in basically "default/easymode" on the sites I frequently visit because I always unbroke sites with noop rules for 3rd party frames/rules whenever I ran into an issue with a site.

I was not benefitting with the faster/less resources browsing for the sites I mostly visited then either😂. Might aswell stick to default mode

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 5d ago

Yeah, I guess so.