Blocking mode: hard mode - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues GitHub Wiki

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Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted + RequestPolicy with 1st-party resources automatically whitelisted.

Blocking-wise, this is a small leap from medium mode. This mode will however lead to a higher likelihood of broken websites, and thus will likely require intervention the first time you visit a site, since even passive 3rd-party resources (i.e. images, css) are blocked with this mode.

This mode will block all 3rd parties by default, so it keeps privacy exposure to 3rd parties to a minimum.

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Starting with v1.21.7b5, a red badge on uBlock Origin (uBO) toolbar button indicates activation of the hard mode.

With a single click, it is possible to toggle the hard mode into the medium mode: it's just a matter of assigning a local noop rule to the 3rd-party cell. You can accomplish the same with a keyboard shortcut through the command "Relax blocking mode".

• Web pages will load fast.
• Your privacy exposure to 3rd parties is reduced to a minimum.
• You no longer depend mostly on 3rd-party filter lists to dictate what is blocked or not.
  • The static filter lists are still used to mop up whatever network requests is not blocked in this mode -- so double protection.
• Very high likelihood of web pages being broken: you have to be ready and willing to fix them when this happen.
  • Keep in mind though that as you build your ruleset for the sites you usually visit, you will spend less and less time fixing web pages.

Settings pane:

• I am an advanced user: checked.

3rd-party filters pane:

• All of uBO's custom filter lists: checked
• EasyList: checked
• Peter Lowe’s Ad server list: checked
• EasyPrivacy: checked
• Online Malicious URL Blocklist: checked

My rules pane:

• Add * * 3p block
• Add * * 3p-script block
• Add * * 3p-frame block

With few clicks, you can easily fall back into lesser blocking modes, if ever you do not have the willingness to figure the necessary rules for a given site.

Fall back into medium mode for the current site:

• set a local noop rule for the 3rd-party cell.

Fall back into easy mode for the current site:

• set a local noop rule for the 3rd-party cell.
• set a local noop rule for the 3rd-party script cell.
• Optionally, set a local noop rule for the 3rd-party frames cell.