uBlock Origin

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I don't see any ads on that page with Firefox and uBlock Origin.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “The built-in adblocker does a worse job at cosmetic filtering than uBlock Origin on Firefox.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “There's a built-in feature in uBlock Origin, on a button with this label: </>”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “I can eliminate some results I don't care via ublock origin hero-blocking this Google garbage”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-21

• “I use uBlock Origin and ReVanced, and I blocked all Shorts from even appearing.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “installed uBlock Origin in Firefox to make sure I don't see Google Ads anymore”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “I use uBlock Origin to make fonts large enough for me to read”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “watched literally zero ads on Youtube since I installed uBlock Origin”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “I'm still running ublock origin on edge without any funky bypasses”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “works perfectly fine on Chrome. I don't notice a difference to the classic uBlock Origin, it even has a element zapper nowadays.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “I personally consider uBlock Origin as an Internet infrastructure component. I have no ... _no_ idea whatsoever how some people use the Internet without it.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “switched from chrome to edge so I can continue using ublock origin”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “I didnt get a dickover with Firefox android and ublock origin”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “the web is nearly, and often very literally, unbrowsable at breadth without UBlock Origin (or similar) running”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “uBlock Origin has a very nice filter which can hide DOM elements on the page if you set it up. Lifesaver with annoying webpages.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “uBlock Origin even works on my locked down work Dell with firefox”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “I switched to trying to block via ublock origin as much as possible, then prefer other extensions to just do one thing to extend coverage, like this one. Makes it much easier to troubleshoot/exclude/disable when it breaks something vs. fiddling in settings.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “uBlock Origin does a really good job at filtering them out. Highly recommended.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “uBlock Origin and others remove the banner / consent screens fine”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “Firefox + uBlock Origin + Filters cleans a lot of these dickovers”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-30

• “uBlock Origin. It's a superb combination on the desktop, and also on my pocket supercomputer.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “starting with simple browser extensions, such as uBlock Origin, and that's WITH installing in manually on a Chrome, Chromium, browser. Just because I can, and because Google is doing everything to try and prevent it. =)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-24

• “uBlock Origin or Vivaldi's own built-in ad/privacy blocker ended up blocking some javascript library that the site needs”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “so glad I use Firefox with ublock origin with the "ai widget" filter”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-21