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acheron on June 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: UBlock Origin

There's an opt-in option in Ghostery that reports usage info, but as far as I know it doesn't "phone home" if you don't opt in to that.

stavros on June 15, 2015 [–]

Yeah, seconded, AFAIK it doesn't phone home if you disable that.

colinbartlett on June 15, 2015 | [–]

Privacy-advocating browser extension stops violating your privacy if you ask it to.

Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on June 15, 2015 | | [–]

No. Sending of usage info is opt-in, not opt-out.

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