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by gorhill 4017 days ago
> No, its main purpose is blocking ads

I am well placed to speak about the main purpose of uBlock Origin. Here, from front page of the project:

> uBlock Origin (or uBlock₀) is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker [...] Ads, "unintrusive" or not, are just the visible portions of privacy-invading apparatus entering your browser when you visit most sites nowadays. uBlock₀'s main goal is to help users neutralize such privacy-invading apparatus [...]

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Well that's what we exactly discuss, no? The adblocker who thinks it is something else.
But it's not an adblocker. It's a generic blocking plugin that also supports blocking ads.