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Guideline 7 of the WordPress Plugin Directory’s Detailed Plugin Guidelines, “Plugins may not track users without their consent”, states that an example of a violation would be “Automated collection of user data without explicit confirmation from the user.” That is being publicly stated to be violated by two 1+ million plugins right on the Plugin Directory. The first is Security Optimizer, which states at the end of its description:
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