Stay Secure Onlineīecause of the increasing amount of scams, malware, and data mining online, many people turn to content-filtering extensions when web browsing. In all, uBO is likely the best option, whether you just need an adblocker or a powerful content-filtering add-on to protect your private information. Further, uBO has the best performance among other ad blockers, including AdBlock, Adguard, and Ghostery. UBO also refuses to take money from companies to whitelist certain “acceptable ads” for-profit, unlike other ad blockers, including Adblock Plus (ABP).

It’s open-source and transparent, but even better, the developer Raymond Hill refuses to take donations and claims he has no intent to ever monetize uBO. UBlock Origin is one of the safest and most trustworthy content filtering add-ons available. Both tools allow you to pick and choose which website elements to remove from a website, but the Zapper is temporary while the Picker is permanent. UBO provides two powerful tools to allow users to perform “cosmetic filtering.” These tools are the Element Zapper and the Element Picker. These scam versions steal user data for profit. There are several add-ons pretending to be uBO, including and uBlock (without the Origin). Note: When installing uBO, make sure that the add-on is uBlock Origin. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available for Apple’s Safari. UBO is available on the Google Chrome web store, on Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and as a Mozilla Firefox add-on (including the Android and iOS versions). Hard mode is like medium mode on steroids and is likely to cause more website breaks for a final small gain in security. This is the recommended mode for privacy-savvy users. Medium mode is for advanced users and requires in-depth knowledge of the add-on, enabling users to manually decide what content is filtered and what is allowed.

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