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by fsckboy 1029 days ago
> FWIW, Firefox and uBlock on my Android phone will always

uBlock was the original name for the add-on that subsequently was ethically compromised/"sold out to" advertisers

uBlock Origin is the 2nd version written by the original author (gorhill) and is not compromised.

Just wasn't sure which you are talking about
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lolinder 1029 days ago
I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but when I search for "uBlock" on Firefox's Add-ons, only uBlock Origin comes up in the first 6 pages. It looks like it's still available (and even "Featured") in the Chrome ecosystem, but in the context of Firefox it's no longer ambiguous which one they're referring to.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?page=1&q=ub...

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fsckboy 1029 days ago
It's good to know people are unlikely to get the wrong one.

It's still called uBlock Origin, and in general I don't think keeping track contextually of when you can get away with a name collision is a great way to do things, and this is an area of privacy concern so I think many of the people interested in the space would like to remain educated about it.

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