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Written by Gerard Braad on 2025-01-14 at 08:11

[#]Honey co-founder's #Pie Adblock called out for copying #GPL-licensed uBlock Origin files

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/pie_adblock_ublock_origin_code/

... and, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution

The expose thread on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hr6xjc/ubo_quick_filters_list_being_stolen_by_team/

"while browsing I found they had the uBlock Origin Quick Fixes filter list lying around in the crx file"

"the uAssets project which is a GPL-licensed project."

"In various files of the source code, there are uBlock Origin scriptlets copy pasted."

[#]opensource

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