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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by akerro on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:47AM (#13035172)
> Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites using the save technology

No, it's not. µblock, µmatrix + clean links.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by philjr on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:57AM (#13035227)
That would be an opt-out strategy, would it not?
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by asymmetric on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:48AM (#13035782)
Is there a point in running both ublock and umatrix? Also, what do you mean by "clean links"? Striped of "utm..." parts?
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by akerro on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:33AM (#13036601)
µblock blocks and removes ads and trackers, µmatrix does the same for cookies and JS. Clean links improve page loading times when you click on a link on reddit or Google, it extracts destination link and gets you directly to the destination without redirect, also google, facebook don't know that you clicked the link.
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by asymmetric on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:53AM (#13062020)
> µblock blocks and removes ads and trackers, µmatrix does the same for cookies and JS.

Not according to its creator https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by sesqu on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:56AM (#13036080)
Clean Links is a plugin that strips the utm-like trackers, affiliate codes, outbound redirects, window.open, and some other relays from links.
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