Apparently some users preffered it for Android.
Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Why would anyone even want to use uBlock Origin Lite on Firefox? It’s a stripped down version designed to work with the limitations of manifest V3 in chrome.
piracysails@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
iirc the dev claims its more useful for firefox mobile.
airglow@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
madis@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is the lite version more performant?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 year 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.