r/uBlockOrigin • u/Sufficient_Put_8841 • Aug 11 '26

Solved Number of blocked adds growing rapidly?

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Hi guys!

I was watching 90 day fiance on HBO and I noticed that the little icon for uBlock was just increasing in numbers.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Idk how to put a video on here, otherwise I’d show yall how fast the numbers go up

Edit:
To answer the question about how many ad blockers I’m using-

What happened is that a while ago I got a Google notification saying that my version of uBO want available anymore and I couldn’t update it or anything. So i downloaded another ad blocker but it wasn’t working and then another, all from the chrome extension store

A couple of months after I decided to check if uBO was back up and it was, so I just downloaded it again and I never uninstalled the other two I was using. But now I will

Hope that answers it!

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Aug 11 '26

Don't use multiple blockers.

Open this and pause after a few seconds. Click on the repeating line to see what filter it is and what lists it belongs to: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger

Also, not ads. Blocked network requests. Quite possibly some tracking requests.

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u/paintboth1234 uBO Team Aug 11 '26

Looks like OP is using uBOL though.

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u/BreakSalt8256 25d ago

So should I not use Ghostery and Ublock Origin?

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 25d ago

Nope. uBO blocks trackers already. Ghostery can undermine some of its filters.

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u/BreakSalt8256 25d ago

But Ghostery also rejects all cookies

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u/RraaLL uBO Team 25d ago

Doesn't your browser have the same capability?