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In Private browsing's new empty tab, Firefox attempts to connect to printfriendly.com and googletagmanager. Why?

MrConfusion
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Why does firefox try to connect to these services while i'm in an empty tab page?

Why does firefox try to connect to these services while i'm in an empty tab page?
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WestEnd
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Firs off turn off or disable all addons and try again in PB that your using. And see what happens.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Could you check with Privacy Badger on that? The "welcome" page for Private Browsing is a privileged page that content scripts cannot execute in, as you can tell by the "?" on the NoScript icon. So I'm not sure whether Privacy Badger is showing the correct status for the built-in page or ??