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[Update] Privacy Tool uBlock (NOT uBlock Origin) Adds User Tracking Feature

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 18 2018, @08:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the when-is-a-feature-not-a-feature? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

As reported here, uBlock added a user tracking feature. Well, after news spread on Reddit, uBlock on Firefox has been reverted to the almost three year old version by the Firefox team, as can be seen here and on Mozilla.org (note version on left sidebar is now Version 0.9.5.0.1-let-fixed Last updated 3 years ago (Oct 31, 2015)).

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Friday May 18 2018, @08:19PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 18 2018, @08:19PM (#681358) Journal

    As in the last article, use uMatrix.

    It's too geeky for grandma. But it works and has finer grained controls.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @08:25PM (#681366)

    What a beautiful day. The man, Winkelham, who was merely an observer, truly thought this to be so. Yes, Winkelham was but an observer; since he was a mere perspective, he could not affect anything with his actions. And so, he continued to observe his surroundings. Then, Winkelham spotted a small girl, and moved closer so that he could observe her in more detail.

    Intense. Winkelham's gaze was truly intense. The man observed the little girl with every fiber of his being, and then observed her some more. More. More. More! Winkelham couldn't get enough of it, so he used True Observation to observe every aspect of her being. That did it.

    Winkelham, who had finished observing the little girl, returned to his former spot in the park to continue watching his surroundings. The man's gaze did not once return to the naked, violated corpse of the little girl, since she was no longer worthy of it...