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I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools — The Results Are Terrifying (www.toolbox-kit.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/webdev@programming.dev
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I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

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[–] 15 points 8 months ago

Well, nice to have validation of my feeling that what passes for "developers" nowadays are clueless idiots far more often than it used to be.

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