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> Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites using the save technology

No, it's not. µblock, µmatrix + clean links.

That would be an opt-out strategy, would it not?

Is there a point in running both ublock and umatrix? Also, what do you mean by "clean links"? Striped of "utm..." parts?

Clean Links is a plugin that strips the utm-like trackers, affiliate codes, outbound redirects, window.open, and some other relays from links.

µblock blocks and removes ads and trackers, µmatrix does the same for cookies and JS. Clean links improve page loading times when you click on a link on reddit or Google, it extracts destination link and gets you directly to the destination without redirect, also google, facebook don't know that you clicked the link.

> µblock blocks and removes ads and trackers, µmatrix does the same for cookies and JS.

Not according to its creator https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

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