I’ve enabled every filter.
If you find your experience a bit slow and clunky, disable cosmetic filters and keep only essential filters.
What are the best Ublock Origin settings for Android?
Submitted 4 months ago by open343@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
No, the web is terrible without cosmetic filters.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You are not wrong, but for example I had an old phone which could not support that much load, so I had to disable a lot of filters and flag “ignore generic cosmetic filters” to be able to surf the web without ads at least.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 months ago
I don't think enabling every filter is how it's supposed to be configured. That's just going to make your experience browsing worse. The defaults are pretty sane. I think that's like 2 of the big (and good) lists. You're supposed to enable your language specific list (with the same base name as the already activated one) along with that. And maybe the speficic ones like "Annoyances" etc. But that's it. If you also go ahead and enable all the not so good lists, that's not making it better.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I didn’t run into issue by enabling all (excluding language specific).
Did you run into any?
Tehhund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thank you for this! I thought Firefox for Android was slow - nope, uBlock was just doing too much.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Glad it helped.
pyre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ON
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 months ago
Same as for desktop.
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Are you talking about the default settings?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 months ago
Not necessarily. That depends on personal preference. and IMHO you should enable some language specific filter if you visit sites in other languages than english. And the third party tracking and annoyance filters. Other than that I think the default settings are pretty good as is. But I just see no reason why someone should configure their Android uBlock differnetly than on the desktop... Just use the same settings?!
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can you be more specific? Is this specifically on Firefox?
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
uBlock Origin is only available on Firefox for Android.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or chrome variants. FTFY
299792458ms@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You can enable medium mode but you need to allow some permissions to trusted websites like banks to not lose your head because websites are broken.
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Considering that even a simple news site may try to connect to 10 different sites in the background, this can be quite a relief.
299792458ms@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Hayppy Cake Day!
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
divestos.org/pages/browsers this has instructions for setting up solid settings
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
This is not for uBlock Origin
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Yes it is, you just didn’t scroll down far enough to the tuning section divestos.org/pages/browsers#tuningFenix
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In addition to a lot of the default/optional lists built-in to uBO, I’ve found the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter to really help get rid of crappy paywalls, even without the accompanying userscript.
github.com/…/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
open343@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I’ve long stopped using paid wall sites. Still, nice list, thanks.