This will ensure no connection is opened at all for blocked requests: It’s for your own protection privacy-wise.” developer says.įYI, Privacy Badger also requires exactly the same permissions. “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”. Note: Clicking on ‘disable’ button showed above will re-enable prerendering, but it also disables the extension. After re-enabling or installing this new version, you can notice ‘prefetch resources to load pages more quickly’ is being controlled by extension (check the screenshot below). If you’re concerned about new permissions, developer of extension gorhill has given some explanation, visit this page to read it.įor Ublock to block network connections, it needs permission to access to your privacy related settings to disable prefetching. READ: Ublock for Firefox now available on Mozilla Add-ons Site Why Ublock requires new permission to change Privacy-related Settings Note: Don’t fall for what chrome showed in the below screenshot: ‘Read and change all your data on the websites you visit’ is there since the first version, and isn’t a new permission you’re giving to the extension. If you’ve installed Ublock Origin or Ublock extension in the Chrome browser, a new version 0.9.8.2 is now available, to install it Chrome disables the extension and alerts the user about the new permissions it requires: (Its quite normal, Chromium does this for every extension): here are they: ‘Change your privacy-related settings’, and ‘read your browsing history’.
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