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Ghostery[1] also already blocks chat widgets.

[1]: https://www.ghostery.com/

though they have serious privacy issues and mine is completely open sourced.

Doesn’t Ghostery have serious privacy issues?

Yes. Ghostery gets some criticism - due to privacy issues among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism

Of course; it’s proprietary software.

It's open source as of last year. https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension

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