diff --git a/platform/safari/README.md b/platform/safari/README.md
index 43c398ae8..769d2450e 100644
--- a/platform/safari/README.md
+++ b/platform/safari/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ The Safari platform does not support the WebExtensions
 framework and thus is no longer supported. Consequently
 the code base has been removed.
 
+Note that the code base here was before the
+[official fork Safari fork](https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari) was
+created, so it does not correspond to the version of
+uBlock Origin which could be installed on Safari.
+
 The last commit which contains the code is
 917f3620e0c08b722bbd4d400bca2735d9f6975f.