In January 2017, uBlock Origin was added to the repositories for Debian 9, and Ubuntu (16.04), and the uBlock Origin extension was awarded the prestigious IoT honor of “Pick of theĪs of 2023, uBlock Origin continues to be maintained and actively developed by founder and lead developer Raymond Hill.
Developer Nik Rolls then officially released uBlock Origin for the Microsoft Edge browser in December 2016. Quickly gaining traction throughout the entire ad-blocking industry, the uBlock Origin Firefox version collected over 5 million active users, with its Chrome extension subsequently compiling over 10 This report attributed this enormous surge to collective user demand for “pure” blockers with the capacity to operate outside the “acceptable advertising” program used by AdBlock, (occasionally represented globally as – uBlock₀).įollowing this 2015 introduction, a collaborative comsource and Sourcepoint industry research survey reported an 833% growth rate over a 10-month period ending in August 2016, the most rapid growth amongĪny industry software publicly listed at that time. Opera extension, in late 2015 the initial uBlock extension expanded to other browsers under its current name – uBlock Origin. First released in June 2014 as an exclusive Chrome and The initial uBlock was developed by Raymond Hill in order to enableĬommunity-maintained block lists while simultaneously adding additional features and upgrading the code quality to proper release standards. HTTP Switchboard with a separate blocking extension, uMatrix, which had been previously designed for advanced users. In 2014 uBlock Origin’s founder, original author and lead developer, Raymond Hill, created the original uBlock extension, with its development initiated by forking the codebase of
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