
We recommend you run it to protect your computer from malware infected advertisements. That means site developers and admins may be unaware of attempts to exploit weaknesses in their code, vulnerabilities may not be addressed, and people may end up losing control of their accounts if attacked. Ublock Origin is a lightweight ad blocker for Google Chrome.

However, uBlock Origin is blocking browsers from sending these CSP alerts, infosec consultant Scott Helme reported on Monday in a bug report on the uBlock Origin GitHub repo. The new option of uBlock Origin 1.17. My one complaint is that I would like to be able to add channels to my whitelist through the extension, rather then having to do so on a channel/video.
#How to whitelist a website in ublock origin update#
It's supposed to kill cross-site-scripting, aka XSS, attacks, and automatically report hacking attempts back to the website's administrators. A recent update to the cross-browser content blocker uBlock Origin introduced an option to block JavaScript by default for all visited sites or individual sites. that Im aware of which ACTUALLY allows you to whitelist YouTube channels if youre using uBlock Origin.

It should grayed out, means you have whitelisted the site. At the heart of the matter is a fairly new technology called content security policy reporting, or CSP reporting, which websites can use to whitelist the scripting code that's allowed to run on their pages, thus stopping attackers from injecting malicious JavaScript into browsers that hijack users' logged-in accounts. visit the site you want to whitelist and click on Ublock Origin icon from menu bar.

UBlock Origin has come under fire for being a little too eager in its quest to murder nasty stuff on the internet: the ad-blocking plugin is preventing browsers from sounding the alarm on hacking attacks.
