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An Anonymous Coward writes:

As reported here: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/17/028245 [soylentnews.org] 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: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8k4fu7/privacy_tool_ublock_not_ublock_origin_adds_user/dz59k0g/ [reddit.com] and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/ [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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