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I'd argue that this is justified when it comes to misleading non-technical users about their privacy.

Mozilla plasters the word "privacy" everywhere and yet opens their own website on first run and after every update which includes Google Analytics, from the same company that's known to violate people's privacy on a large scale and profit from it.

Browser fingerprinting and IP-based tracking is reliable enough that blocking cookies is absolutely useless in this day and age against an omnipresent adversary such as Google & Facebook. Blocking their request uBlock Origin-style is the only way to go and claiming to protect your privacy otherwise is very misleading.



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