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by jacquesm 872 days ago
Either way you wouldn't know. Anything that phones home could be spyware, the difference is on the far side. So it could start out as not spyware and then become spyware. Or it may sometimes be spyware and at other times it is not.

Browsers should only do what their users tell them to do. In fact: that goes for computers as a whole.