(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
