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I'll add the Bryan Lunduke to "read further" section.
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20181002204159/https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help-improve-firefox">[web.archive.org]</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20181002204159/https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help-improve-firefox">[web.archive.org]</a>
<a href="http://archive.fo/gkVeb">[archive.fo]</a> <a href="http://archive.fo/gkVeb">[archive.fo]</a>
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<h3>Mitigating Firefox Spyware</h3> <h3>Whitelisting trackers</h3>
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Despite many Firefox fanboys, in order to convince people to use it, mentioning that Brave whitelists trackers, Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" does the same thing through a massive list of domains<sup><a href="#9">[9]</a></sup> <sup><a href="#10">[10]</a></sup>.
</p> <h3>Mitigating Firefox Spyware</h3>
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This reveiew is also accompanied by a page about how to configure Firefox to be more privacy respecting, and links to other projects that have been created to solve this This reveiew is also accompanied by a page about how to configure Firefox to be more privacy respecting, and links to other projects that have been created to solve this
problem. You can read about that <a href="/guides/firefox.html">here.</a> These are some of the flags in about:config mentioned earlier in the article, and the values that problem. You can read about that <a href="/guides/firefox.html">here.</a> These are some of the flags in about:config mentioned earlier in the article, and the values that
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<a name="8">8.</a> <a name="8">8.</a>
<a href="https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-pocket-in-firefox#firefox">Disable Pocket in Firefox</a> <a href="https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-pocket-in-firefox#firefox">Disable Pocket in Firefox</a>
<a href="https://archive.li/mWBcp">[archive.is]</a><br> <a href="https://archive.li/mWBcp">[archive.is]</a><br>
<a name="9">9.</a>
<a href="https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=UqkeZIPLY5M">Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection whitelists Google, Instagram... and Winamp?</a><br>
<a name="10">10.</a>
<a href="https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/unblocked">List of whitelisted trackers</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200411051257/https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/unblocked">[web.archive.org]</a><br>
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