From edddff7e5686046ba23b6d8e703e44cbb006eab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hill Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:55:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Reference answer to claims such as "uBlock is inferior in capabilities as a result of being lighter on the browser" (markdown) --- ...ilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\"....md" | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) rename "Reference-answer-to-claims-such-as-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" => "About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\"....md" (99%) diff --git "a/Reference-answer-to-claims-such-as-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" "b/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\"....md" similarity index 99% rename from "Reference-answer-to-claims-such-as-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" rename to "About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\"....md" index 9f33416..124ba06 100644 --- "a/Reference-answer-to-claims-such-as-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\".md" +++ "b/About-\"uBlock-is-inferior-in-capabilities-as-a-result-of-being-lighter-on-the-browser\"....md" @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Motivation for creating this page, this comment made in the spirit of _Fake News There is nothing wrong with preferring ABP to uBO. There is however something wrong when someone engages in misinformation regarding uBO because of their preference for ABP. +This is my reference answer to such claims. + uBlock Origin is lighter on the browser because of many choices which were made regarding how the filtering engine is designed internally. A coarse enumeration of these choices are: - lean in-memory filter representation - plain string comparisons instead of regular expressions wherever possible