Removing contiguous duplicate lines in vi without sorting

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Published on 2010-04-29T16:02:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 16:07 UTC
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This question already addresses how to remove duplicate lines, but enforces that the list is sorted first.

I would like to perform the remove contiguous duplicate lines step (i.e. uniq) without first sorting them.

Example before:

Foo
Foo
Bar
Bar

Example after:

Foo
Bar

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