• Name is Optional@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It has always been my understanding that uBlock and uBlock Origin were two totally different extensions for ad blocking. Is this not correct? Back several year ago when ad blockers were new, I recall seeing two different Firefox listings for them, and people would caution users to get uBlock Origin and not the other truncated named one

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          1 year ago

          Yes, it is metamorphical lol. Gorhill is the creator of both uBlock and uBlock Origin. However, he gave the uBlock github repo to another dev, who sold it to adblock plus. Do not download uBlock.

          However, he did fork uBlock and continued to develop his own version, now named uBlock Origin. Do download uBlock Origin.

          PSA: ublock.org is not related to uBlock Origin.