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Huh? What does eyeo have to do with uBlock? Adblock plus is their thing.

• ajayyy 5y ago
  It is officially one "team" now https://eyeo.com/teaming-up-for-new-products-the-teams-behind-adblock-plus-and-adblock-combine/ https://eyeo.com/teaming-up-for-new-products-the-teams-behin... Historically, it always seemed like it was one company though as Adblock codebase has been based on Adblock plus codebase for years, and they both use Acceptable ads. Edit to avoid confusion: Fake "uBlock" (not to be confused with uBlock Origin) is owned by AdBlock https://www.ublock.org/blog/an-update-on-ublock/ https://www.ublock.org/blog/an-update-on-ublock/
  • efdee 5y ago
    That article is about the team(s) behind Adblock and Adblock Plus. It has nothing to do with uBlock Origin.
    • ajayyy 5y ago
      uBlock != uBlock Origin uBlock is a scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock https://ublock.org https://ublock.org
  • xxpor 5y ago
    Adblock/ABP != uBlock Origin
  • detaro 5y ago
    ... and what does that have to do with uBlock? (EDIT: and if you edit in answers to questions into your original comment, please mark that as an edit)
    • erk__ 5y ago
      uBlock (Not origin) was acquired by AdBlock (not plus), look under the uBlock header here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock
      • detaro 5y ago
        thanks, that was the piece that I was missing
  • whimsicalism 5y ago
    lol ublock origin blocks that second link
    • deleted 5y ago
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• GuB-42 5y ago
  AdBlock Plus and uBlock are owned by the same company, uBlock is not uBlock Origin, and the history is confusing. µBlock/uBlock was the original, released in 2014 by Gorhill. In 2015, fed up with support request, he transferred the project to Chris Aljoudi. He then forked his own project, most likely due to a disagreement over donations, it became uBlock Origin. Eventually most people moved from uBlock to the better maintained uBlock Origin. Eyeo eventually bought uBlock and added their "acceptable ads" option. So you can't say that uBlock is a fake, it is actually the original project. But the one made by the original author is uBlock Origin. Yes it is confusing, but whatever, get uBlock Origin.
  • gorhill 5y ago
    The current "uBlock" is not the original project, "uBlock Origin" is the original project. The essence of a project is not the location of its repo on GitHub, it's who worked on it since it was first created, i.e. the commit history. If you look at the commit history of "uBlock Origin", it goes back without interruption to June 23rd, 2014, back to when I created the repo.[1] The claim that the current "uBlock" is the "official", "original" project is a marketing pitch by the people behind it, who I call out as purposefully deceitful.[2] * * * [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors [2] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1477665332156420096 https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1477665332156420096