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   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   Interesting study here:   
      
   https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf   
      
   Tested major browsers and tracked them calling home.   
   The worst: Edge, which calls home with a unique   
   machine ID. Most of the tracking can be stopped by   
   disabling autocomplete, push notifications, and so-called   
   safebrowsing checks. But Edge won't allow its check-ins   
   to be stopped.   
      
     Without disabling those default-enabled features, pretty   
   much every browser calls home with a full report of   
   every URL you visit. They report any change to the content   
   of the address bar for the auto-complete search functions.   
      
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