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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T00:10:56.000Z",
  "site": "http://forum.palemoon.org",
  "tags": [
    "@Moonchild",
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  "textContent": "**TL;DR**\n\n@Moonchild or @Basilisk-Dev, please, at least provide an ad blocker that can be found unmistakably and installed through the add-ons page. If it can't be called _uBlock Origin_ for whatever reason, call it something else.\n\nThat's it, but read through if you have time.\n\n\n* * *\n\nGuys, let's get real, Pale Moon and Basilisk need their own ad blocker. When some criticize them on sites like Reddit (ugh!), one thing these people often mention, and it's unfortunately true, is the lack of an ad blocker. \"That's not true\", you will say, \"we have uBlock and eMatrix!\". Let us see.\n\nSuppose I'm an average PC user (not even a normie) that just left Fagfox because of some shitty new thing they implemented. Since I have a brain, after I installed Basilisk or Pale Moon, I went after an ad blocker. So, I go to the browser's add-ons page (would a normie go this far?) and start searching for ad blockers.\n\n  * If I search for **ad blocker** , I get _CanvasBlocker Legacy_ : \"Nah, don't even know what a _canvas_ is\"; and _ηMatrix_ , with a description that reads: \"Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.\". I may go for it and, alas... --we know eMatrix is not for everyone.\n  * If I search for **adblocker** , nothing is shown.\n  * Only if I search for **ad block** or **adblock** will uBlock appear.\n\nBut, man, it's called _uBlock Origin (Legacy) [External]_! What would you think if Pale Moon was called _Firefox (Legacy)_? See what I mean? But, then, I click on the link and it takes me to a totally weird crappy, and a bit laggy, site where there is no \"download extension\", no \"install add-on\", no nothing. It'd take something to understand that I'm supposed to click on _uBlock0_1.16.6.1.firefox-legacy.xpi_ (what is an _xpi_?).\n\nI know it's not the browser's developers job to do this, but, these days, the availability of an ad blocker is a must and not having it is \"bad for business\" for sure. I'm not asking to bundle the browser with an ad blocker, but one should be available to the new user as readily as possible.\n\nParticularly, I've never seen an ad with uBlock + Basilisk. It's great, it doesn't require no tinkering, it's \"set it and forget it\", as the say. But, if someone is willing to fork and improve _uBlock Origin (Legacy) [External]_ or, better yet, write an uBlock-compatible ad blocker from scratch himself, it'd be most welcome. Everybody here says that XUL extensions are more powerful than WebExtensions, then how come our ad blocker, the extension that matters the most, is worse than Firefox's? Let's show them..., right? Only, please, don't vibecode.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Add-ons • The urge for an ad blocker",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-02T00:10:56.000Z"
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