Please add a fourth mode - "No filtering".

[999px]

uBlock Origin Lite has only three modes: Basic, Optimal, Full.
Please add a fourth mode - "No filtering".

In this mode, uBlock Origin Lite should be active but not perform any filtering, allowing manual activation for specific sites.

For example, I want it to work only on YouTube and a few other sites, and do nothing on others.

[garry-ut99]

The whole idea of "disable for all websites, and only enable for specific websites" mode, was requested many times in the past, and was always declined:

• (05.2016) Whitelist by default gorhill/uBlock#1623
• (11.2017) Option to enable/disable by default gorhill/uBlock#3202
• (05.2019) ublock is off by default and only the sites you specify will be blocked. uBlock-issues#586
• (03.2021) Feature: invert the custom rules to a list "allowed to filter" uBlock-issues#1534

The answer for "why declined" was provided in the following comments:

• ublock is off by default and only the sites you specify will be blocked. uBlock-issues#586 (comment)
• Feature: invert the custom rules to a list "allowed to filter" uBlock-issues#1534 (comment)

Then the same answer was copy&pasted into the Wiki documentation:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/How-to-mark-a-web-site-as-trusted#disabling-filtering-by-default

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Though as seen, there is a workaround available in uBlock Origin, to disable uBO on all websites, and enable only on specific ones, which is a bit cumbersome (most likely on purpose), but works as expected: a special regex, in which you manually put only blocked sites.

There is also a similiar setting, for cosmetic filters: "Disable cosmetic filtering" in settings + and then using Per site switches to enable only on specific websites: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-cosmetic-filtering.

And also a Dynamic filtering layer: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering

But none of these work in uBlock Lite: no regex support in "No filtering" area + no Per site switches available + no Dynamic filtering.

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(To be clear: I only have provided useful informations, I do not take part in the discussion about accepting or rejecting the OP's feature request, because I personally never had a need for such a feature, nor I use uBlock Lite (I use uBlock Origin on a daily basis.).

[gorhill]

You can enable that sort of mode by entering all-urls in the "No filtering" text area. This is as far as I will go to support that special mode, i.e. I won't further modify the user interface to specifically enable no filtering as default mode.

[999px]

garry-ut99 Thank you very much for such a detailed answer!!!
To be honest, I’m very upset and surprised at the same time o_O

gorhill uBlock Origin Lite is the perfect ad blocking add-on. It doesn't require additional permissions and that's great!

Please add the ability to set the default “no filtering” mode in the settings

[gorhill]

You can enable that sort of mode by entering all-urls in the "No filtering" text area.

[999px]

gorhill

Oh thank you so much!!! exactly what is needed!
I didn’t understand you correctly the first time, I thought I should just write all my sites list there :D

but now I only entered all-urls there and it turned out what I wanted!

Thanks again :)

[garry-ut99]

Good to know, worth to add, that nowhere was it publicly mentioned / documented before (either on purpose, or overlooked, or lack of time).

[gorhill]

This became possible with this commit. I can't remember what led me to make this change.