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It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others.


>It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others.

Those BS plugins do very little for actual privacy (and even less if one is actually a target) and very much for CPU/memory.


I’m someone who also values privacy, but a few of the extensions in question almost certainly don’t offer enough value for their cost. Random UA switching makes you more fingerprintable. And this all on Windows 10…




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