Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  iirc the dev claims its more useful for firefox mobile.

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  • airglow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Any details on that? The full uBlock Origin works well on mobile and I don’t see how a lite version with reduced blocking effectiveness could be more useful.

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    • madis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing – uBOL’s service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.

      uBOL does not require broad “read/modify data” permission at install time, hence its limited capabilities out of the box compared to uBlock Origin or other content blockers requiring broad “read/modify data” permissions at install time.

      Emphasis mine. No background processes, including a website-reading permission does indeed sound more optimized for mobile, where people may have limited resources.

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• piracysails@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apparently some users preffered it for Android.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My guess is that it’s used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lit versions of apps be available to people who don’t use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.

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  • Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is the lite version more performant?

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don’t know. I’m not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn’t have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.

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