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Re:Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Help Security by propogandist on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:18PM (#20586672)
vendors like Adblock Plus are paid by Google (and others) to allow their ads to not be blocked.

It is the same company that bought the uBlock clone, including the domain name, so they can mislead people and give them the illusion of adblocking.

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Re:Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Help Security by flingo on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:48PM (#20587585)
That wasn't a clone. That was the original project.

Hill wanted to stop working on it, handed it off, and then it got bought by evil Germans. Then, he released and maintained an unfucked/original version: µblock origin

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