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My memory may be rusty, but iirc he already gave away the uBlock project (sold?) once. The new maintainer immediately started pulling shady moves so gorhill for
by RainaRelanah 3y ago
My memory may be rusty, but iirc he already gave away the uBlock project (sold?) once. The new maintainer immediately started pulling shady moves so gorhill forked uBlock into uBlock Origin and has maintained it to this date (7+ years).
- ajayyy 3y agoIt was not sold. It was transferred to a the contributor of a Safari port. Only the GitHub repository though, not the extension store page. That has always remained with gorhill. So, no one's install was compromised proof: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/0797d040740de8e9f75527448c628faf80f8ebc7#chromium https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/0797d040740de8e9f7552...
- ShamelessC 3y agoWhy did origin get made then?
- ajayyy 3y agoThe name origin was used because google took it down for using the name ublock after the GitHub repo transfer