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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-

by 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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