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		gorhill on Dec 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Ch... I myself most often write "uBlock" and pronounce "you-block", as in "users decide". I originally used the mu character in place of the u to emphasize smaller resource footprint relative to similar solutions out there. I've never been good with picking name etc., unfortunately now we are stuck with it.

Intermernet on Dec 28, 2014 [–]

Don't sweat it. It's actually quite a good name. It works both as "you block" and "micro block" depending on reading the first character as "u" or "mu".

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