It is missing a few features here and there but nothing has been a dealbreaker for me. Everything renders extremely quickly relative to IE or Firefox. I’ve recently become a convert from IE/Firefox as my default browser to Edge. If you’ve gotten this far, it means you haven’t completely ruled out using Microsoft Edge as a browser – and that’s good. DOWNLOAD: uBlock Origin (PREVIEW) for Microsoft Edge.It’s been a real delight for me & provides a much better experience than many of the other adblocking, privacy shielding tools I’ve used to date. I wholeheartedly encourage folks that are using Microsoft Edge to give uBlock Origin a try. The one catch is that it’s still in ‘preview’, although it’s actually been available for several months now and there’s been very little that I’ve had a problem with. Sites known to use technical tricks to circumvent adblocking & anti-tracking tech.This is a small example of the filters it comes with out of the box. Take a look at the following table that comes from the “uBlock Dashboard”, i.e. uBlock Origin doesn’t just protect you using a single list of known ‘bad’ sites/domains.

This is a major win for this tool already in my mind compared to other blockers. In my experience so far, they’ve done a stunning job compared to other tools which really bog down your browser experience with unexplained intermittent pauses, “not responding” freezes of the browser, HTML frame rendering that takes forever, etc. The creators tout uBlock Origin to be optimized to not impact the user experience. UBlock Origin, simply put, is a highly efficient browser filter that is both light on CPU usage & extremely extensible. UBlock Origin Adblocking, Privacy-shielding add-on for Microsoft Edge Heard of AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, or any number of ad blockers, privacy shields, and other such add-ons for browsers?Ī fellow named Nik Rolls has ported an open source add-in to Microsoft Edge called “ uBlock Origin” that is somewhat of a lesser known tool to consumers but is highly respected in the technical community.

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