A lot of people use uBlock Origin. Does any of you use uMatrix?
I used to have uMatrix runing on my browser. It basically works like a firewall, preventing cookies, scripts and other stuff running on your browser without your consent.
It gives you much more control than uBlock, but it is also known for breaking websites if you don't set what you allow the browser to run properly. I remember it being quite tedious, as I had to go through the process of setting those things properly on each new website I was visiting.
Maybe some of you use it already, and would like to share the experience. Maybe others didn't know about it and would like to give it a try. Either way, I don't hear that many peopl talking about this tool, so I thought of sharing it here.
Have a wonderful day!
GitHub - gorhill/uMatrix: uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type - gorhill/uMatrixGitHub
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fartsparkles
in reply to kwarg • • •lime!
in reply to fartsparkles • • •i mean it still works. it has no external dependencies, it has no known bugs afaik, it just trucks along. no maintenance necessary.
normalize software being "done".
fartsparkles
in reply to lime! • • •A fair opinion. I simply try to avoid building a personal dependency on something that isn’t maintained so I’m less impacted if it suddenly breaks or there’s a vulnerability.
It’s a great tool though. One of the best security extensions bar noscript.
Quacksalber
in reply to kwarg • • •Alb
in reply to kwarg • • •hexagonwin
in reply to kwarg • • •i use numatrix, it's a fork of nutensor whichbwas a fork of umatrix. it's regularly updated and available on firefox AMO
unlike nutensor/umatrix or even ublock origin it even has keyboard shortcut feature, so paired with vimfx i almost never have to touch the mouse
MonkderVierte
in reply to kwarg • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to kwarg • • •I've read something about Javascript compatibility issues years ago, which lead me to switch to uBlock Origin 100%. Search engines suck for such things, so i've asked Haiku via duck.ai:
UI & Interface Issues
Mozilla Discourse Support Thread (2017-2018): discourse.mozilla.org/t/suppor… Mozilla
Documented issues include:
JavaScript Blocking Issues
GitHub Issue #902 (January 2018): github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/iss… GitHub
Reports of JavaScript blocking not functioning properly on Firefox 56/57, with the logger showing blocks that don't actually prevent script execution.
There's also nuMatrix, but that seems buggy, with outdated default lists, disappearing new lists.
Edit: formatting
[Support] uMatrix
Mozilla Discourseslazer2au
in reply to kwarg • • •Libb
in reply to kwarg • • •grue
in reply to kwarg • • •racoon
in reply to grue • • •teyrnon
in reply to grue • • •thingsiplay
in reply to kwarg • • •I use uBlock Origin + uMatrix at the same time. The default blocked stuff from both works for me fine. uMatrix has great flexibility to allow certain stuff. And uBlock has ability to block additional stuff with the element picker, either temporary or permanent. Both tools have additional settings that the other might not cover. So what I usually do:
pinguinu [any]
in reply to thingsiplay • • •ghost_laptop
in reply to kwarg • • •oong3Eepa1ae1tahJozoosuu
in reply to kwarg • • •zod000
in reply to kwarg • • •ThunderComplex
in reply to kwarg • • •Also iFrames just never worked. They remained blocked despite explicitly allowing them (which was prolly because the ext was unmaintained so long).
Not being able to block JS and Cookies on a domain level is a bit of a bummer but all in all I’d consider it an upgrade.