cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54288281
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cblock-origin/
I found this addon on firefox addon store. Its named like cblock origin. Is this genuine ?
It says in the description that this is a version with minimal changes that exists because uBlock is not available in China. It looks like the source is located here: https://codeberg.org/lanticy/cBlock
I wouldn’t use it if you have the ability to use the original uBlock, but if you have no other choice, this looks plausable.
Something smells
i see no reason to use that over normal ubo. even in china i believe you can get ubo…?
I know. But what about other less tech savy firefox users. I asked is it spam because we can report the addon to firefox.
I would rather trust that mainland china can’t use ublock - even less tech savy users would probably avoid a plugin that’s written in chinese and would end up far lower on search results.
I’d say not to report something like this
the risk to non-tech-savy is minimal, and the potential usecase is very important to any chinese users
Hard to say. It might as well be a harmless hobby project by a chinese university student, but I would only trust an established foss developer for a browser addon.
