diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a05801398a..c3249140ed 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ We use *breaking* word for marking changes that are not backward compatible (rel
 ### Fixed
 
 - [#1856](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/1856) Receive: close DBReadOnly after flushing to fix a memory leak.
+- [#1882](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/1882) Receive: upload to object storage as 'receive' rather than 'sidecar'.
 
 ### Added
 - [#1852](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/1852) Add support for `AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_FULL_URI` by upgrading to minio-go v6.0.44
diff --git a/cmd/thanos/receive.go b/cmd/thanos/receive.go
index 09c3e8f317..2ea0c962c6 100644
--- a/cmd/thanos/receive.go
+++ b/cmd/thanos/receive.go
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func runReceive(
 	replicaHeader string,
 	replicationFactor uint64,
 	tsdbBlockDuration model.Duration,
-	comp component.Component,
+	comp component.SourceStoreAPI,
 ) error {
 	logger = log.With(logger, "component", "receive")
 	level.Warn(logger).Log("msg", "setting up receive; the Thanos receive component is EXPERIMENTAL, it may break significantly without notice")
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ func runReceive(
 				if s != nil {
 					s.Shutdown(errors.New("reload hashrings"))
 				}
-				tsdbStore := store.NewTSDBStore(log.With(logger, "component", "thanos-tsdb-store"), nil, localStorage.Get(), component.Receive, lset)
+				tsdbStore := store.NewTSDBStore(log.With(logger, "component", "thanos-tsdb-store"), nil, localStorage.Get(), comp, lset)
 
 				s = grpcserver.New(logger, &receive.UnRegisterer{Registerer: reg}, tracer, comp, tsdbStore,
 					grpcserver.WithListen(grpcBindAddr),
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ func runReceive(
 	if upload {
 		// The background shipper continuously scans the data directory and uploads
 		// new blocks to Google Cloud Storage or an S3-compatible storage service.
-		bkt, err := client.NewBucket(logger, confContentYaml, reg, component.Sidecar.String())
+		bkt, err := client.NewBucket(logger, confContentYaml, reg, comp.String())
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}