Reviews for uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
Review by Firefox user 14054604
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14054604, 5 years agoStill a great add-on. Regarding the recent update requiring IP and hostname permissions, see the dev's official statement on this below:
"Firefox 60+
uBO requires a new permission, dns, which is required to solve issue 780. This may triggers a new permission warning from Firefox when uBO updates to the latest dev build, specifically 'Access IP address and hostname information', even though this was already possible for uBO to access that information (through the webRequest API)"
Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.25.0
"Firefox 60+
uBO requires a new permission, dns, which is required to solve issue 780. This may triggers a new permission warning from Firefox when uBO updates to the latest dev build, specifically 'Access IP address and hostname information', even though this was already possible for uBO to access that information (through the webRequest API)"
Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.25.0