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uBlock Origin New Permissions


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I just realized that I was suddenly getting ads.

 

I clicked on the hamburger menu in top right and got the following message. Anyone else get this? Know what this is for?

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The reasons for the new permissions are detailed on their GitHub: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.8.2 (copy/paste below).

 

  • [Chrom*] connections not being blocked after reload (from uMatrix)
    • uBlock now requires a new permission, "Change your privacy-related settings": for uBlock to be able to disable the setting "Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly".
    • This will ensure no TCP connection is opened at all for blocked requests: It's for your own protection privacy-wise.
    • For pages with lots for blocked requests, this will actually remove overhead from page load (if you did not have the setting already disabled).
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The reasons for the new permissions are detailed on their GitHub: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.8.2 (copy/paste below).

 

  • [Chrom*] connections not being blocked after reload (from uMatrix)
    • uBlock now requires a new permission, "Change your privacy-related settings": for uBlock to be able to disable the setting "Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly".
    • This will ensure no TCP connection is opened at all for blocked requests: It's for your own protection privacy-wise.
    • For pages with lots for blocked requests, this will actually remove overhead from page load (if you did not have the setting already disabled).

 

 

That only explains ONE of the new permissions. I want to know why Read and change all your data is new. The explanations I have seen so far does not explain why this permission is new - it should have been there all the time ("it needs this permission so it can modify the pages you load" - duh, is that not exactly what it has been doing since day 1 so why is this new?).

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Does that dialogue show you all the permissions the extension requires and not just the new ones? Otherwise it could just be an update in Chrome to change permissions etc, requiring extensions to re-register for them.

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