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Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke' by blockoperation on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:23PM (#15808716)
Actually, Chromium (and uBO) has supported blocking WebSockets via webRequest for a while now[1], despite the desperate protests of a MindGeek employee[2].

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0f198df6bc8... [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129353...

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Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke' by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:56PM (#15809095)
Still, installing uBO-Extra is a damn good idea. If nothing else than to block insidious methods such as Instart Logic and WebRTC abuse: https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...
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