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Re:UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin with... by kirb on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:28PM (#18477688)
In fact the current AdBlock has no relation to the original AdBlock:

>AdBlock's efforts are not related to Adblock Plus. The developer of AdBlock, Michael Gundlach, claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on the original Adblock that ceased development in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock

And as another commenter pointed out, uBlock was transferred to another developer and the original developer forked it to continue as uBlock Origin. Why still doesn’t make sense to me.

It’s a mess and it’s all so morally questionable.

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Re:UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin with... by lucideer on Saturday November 17, 2018 @09:16PM (#18478530)
> the original developer forked it to continue as uBlock Origin. Why still doesn’t make sense to me.

The original developer forked it because the new maintainer he had entrusted it to was trying to monetise by collecting donations under alleged false pretenses, while allegedly removing attribution of other previous contributors. Many/most of those previous contributors to original uBlock went on to follow the original dev and contribute to the Origin fork.

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