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Thank you. Can you recommend any tutorials for Charles Proxy or Wireshark? They are more technical than I understand.
Stupid questions:

1) Would a plugin such as Disconnect.me stop this from happening? (Yes, I am aware of the irony...)

2) What's the best way for a non-technical person to monitor traffic to ensure that plugins are not "phoning home"?