About "Why uBlock Origin works so much better than Pi‑hole does?" - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues GitHub Wiki
Off the top of my head:
- Cancels network requests early within the browser
- Pattern-based filtering on the whole URL. Examples:
- Plain pattern:
&act=ads_ - Wildcard-based pattern:
/analytics.*/event? - Regex-based pattern:
/^https?:\/\/[a-z]{8,15}\.[a-z]{2,3}\/5\/\d{6,7}(?:\?_=\d+)?$/
- Plain pattern:
- Context information
- Example:
$script,third-party,domain=imgbox.com - Point-and-click to enable/disable blocking behavior on a per-site basis:
- JavaScript
- Large media elements
- Remote fonts
- Etc.
- You can see what specific network requests are made by what specific page, you can fully inform yourself of what specific pages/sites are causing your browser to do
- Example:
- Ability to redirect to a neutered version of a resource
- Example:
||google-analytics.com/ga.js$script,redirect=google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Example:
- Cosmetic filtering, the manipulation of DOM elements in the browser
- Example:
##.AdHeader
- Example:
- Scriptlet injection filtering, the injection of JS scriptlets to modify the behavior of a page which is effective to defuse anti-content blockers
- Example:
wallstreet-online.de##+js(nostif, userHasAdblocker)
- Example:
- HTML filtering (Tor Browser and Firefox only), the removal of DOM elements from a document before parsed by the browser
- Example:
wetteronline.de##^script:has-text(runCount)
- Example:
- Ability to deal with unwanted popups
- Example:
&link_type=offer$popup,third-party
- Example:
- Ability to remove tracking parameters from websites
- Example:
||wuzhuiso.com^$removeparam=src
- Example:
- You can easily (narrowly/broadly) override any filter from the filter lists through simple point-and-click operations to customize your filtering or to quickly fix sites broken as a result of overzealous filters
The main advantage of Pi-Hole is that it filters network traffic from all devices on your network, but filtering is blunt compared to what you can do through a browser extension.