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I've been using the extension on Firefox for years. Their browser context menu for blocking individual HTML elements has been really handy for the more aggressive AD-heavy sites, though I sometimes miss uMatrix's fine-grained controls.

On the plus side, I can't recall the last time I needed to disable the extension to get a site to work; I'm wondering if it's due to the ad networks still being able to ping back despite the element remaining hidden?



And if anyone's interested in this extension, you may also like this one: https://www.trackmenot.io/

It sends bogus search requests in the background. And it seems like it works as intended, as the extension is banned entirely from Google's Chrome store.




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