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by noja 302 days ago
How does uMatrix handle the Facebook tracking pixel, or the replacement which is the Conversions API Gateway?

This is a container that FB gives you to host that lives under your domain (it can be your main domain) that slurps up user data and sends it to Facebook from the server side. You embed some JS in your website, and they hoover up the data.
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M95D 302 days ago
It doesn't handle it. Anyway, there's no way to know what a website does on the server site. Even a completely static website could be sending the server logs somewhere.

There are options to not load JS, images, XMLHttpRequests, frames, cookies, for each site, but it doesn't list individual files.

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noja 302 days ago
Then why use it? They're number one.
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M95D 301 days ago
No other extension is giving me control like uMatrix does, even considering it's limits.
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