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NanoCore

An adblocker

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What it is

An adblocker

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-20 18:53:42 UTC to 2021-07-11 01:36:54 UTC.

024682019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 4 submissions, 4 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC844
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

13 sources
pgjs·Jul 11, 2021
Not a new thing. In fact, a while back this guy[1] sold out the Nano extension to suspect elements and made money out of it. The new owners turned that extension into malware. The original author who sold it then started closing the github issues that were raised, made the repo read only and fled. Was discussed a while back here in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803740 and the malware details here https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issueco... [1] https://github.com/jspenguin2017
In The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives
gorhill·Feb 17, 2021
I want to clarify a few points in the article re. uBlock Origin, they might be seen as minor details but to me they matter. > Raymond Hill, after (you guessed it) he transferred ownership of uBlock to a new, untrustworthy maintainer Only the GitHub repo was transferred, I never transferred the extension in the Chrome Store, and Opera Store.[1] The Firefox version was published by a contributor, and he chose to stay with the new maintainer, and as a result I created a new publication for uBlock Origin in Firefox store. All this was nearly 6 years ago. > Aljoudi began reducing blocking features, eventually choosing to permit certain ads via the "acceptable ads" program "Acceptable Ads" was added to "uBlock" in February 2019 by the new owner, BetaFish Inc. (maker of AdBlock).[2] BetaFish Inc. was itself sold circa October 2015 to an (still)
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anonymous buyer.[3] > Hill created a fork, now called uBlock Origin, which reverted the changes I didn't revert any change, I forked while I was still controlling the GitHub repo.[4] If you look at the project timeline, it shows that I have been in charge since the first commit in June 2014.[5] > Nano Defender and its 200,000+ users, upon their recent acquisition, immediately began having their personal data mined. Note that the malware did not require the blocking ability of the webRequest API to collect the data, it needed only the observational ability, which is not deprecated by Manifest v3.[6] ** [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/57 [2] https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.5.13 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318200 [4] This was the first release following the split, nothing had to be reverted: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.3.0 [5] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors [6] https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issueco...
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