![]() Developer Nik Rolls then officially released uBlock Origin for the Microsoft Edge browser in December 2016. ![]() ![]() Quickly gaining traction throughout the entire ad-blocking industry, the uBlock Origin Firefox version collected over 5 million active users, with its Chrome extension subsequently compiling over 10 This report attributed this enormous surge to collective user demand for “pure” blockers with the capacity to operate outside the “acceptable advertising” program used by AdBlock, (occasionally represented globally as – uBlock₀).įollowing this 2015 introduction, a collaborative comsource and Sourcepoint industry research survey reported an 833% growth rate over a 10-month period ending in August 2016, the most rapid growth amongĪny industry software publicly listed at that time. Opera extension, in late 2015 the initial uBlock extension expanded to other browsers under its current name – uBlock Origin. First released in June 2014 as an exclusive Chrome and The initial uBlock was developed by Raymond Hill in order to enableĬommunity-maintained block lists while simultaneously adding additional features and upgrading the code quality to proper release standards. ![]() HTTP Switchboard with a separate blocking extension, uMatrix, which had been previously designed for advanced users. I consider Opera VPN is a truly wonderful addition to Opera (especially as it is free and with unlimited data usage), but without a “killswitch” it allows monitoring and data collecting by third parties when it occasionally randomly pops in and out of VPN.In 2014 uBlock Origin’s founder, original author and lead developer, Raymond Hill, created the original uBlock extension, with its development initiated by forking the codebase of If using full screen mode there is no way a user will be aware they are going in and out of VPN mode and their privacy at risk, Now a really worthwhile improvement to Opera VPN would be a “killswitch” (for want of a better word) because I have found Opera VPN on occasions to be prone to random very short VPN disconnects and reconnects (especially at weekends and late afternoon in my location). IMHO it’s far better to have extra irrelevant location results than have the likes of Google monitoring and data gathering. Seems to me THIS new default “improvement” defeats the purpose of using VPN if it only does half the job. Personally speaking, I’m totally unconvinced it is an improvement to Bypass VPN when Searching, as we all know that the big Search Engines do their very best to gather masses of data on user habits etc., which they can then use for their own purposes or sell on to others.
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