Automattic Humility

• Contributors: David Decker, contributors
• Tags: automattic, jetpack, woocommerce, ads, tracking, humility
• Requires at least: 4.7.0
• Tested up to: 5.1
• Required PHP: 5.6
• Stable tag: master
• Current stable version: 1.0.0
• Donate link: https://www.paypal.me/deckerweb
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later
• License URI: https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0

A first attempt to remove the shameless Ad injection of recent Jetpack and WooCommerce versions (2019). And also trying to completely stop the WooCommerce tracking.

Features & Description - this Plugin Removes the Following:

• Jetpack 7.1+ Ads injection into plugin installer search results
• WooCommerce Ads injection into various places in WP-Admin
• WooCommerce tracking of lots of data, including order data (!) - for more info see this Reddit thread

More Background Info:

• Reddit discussion thread
• WP Tavern article 1 / article 2 / article 3 / article 4
• What data is Jetpack syncing? --> That's why you should avoid Jetpack at all costs anyway
• Article "7 Reasons Why You Should NOT Use Jetpack" (by myself)

Plugin Installation:

Requirements/ Prerequisites

• WordPress v4.7 or higher
• PLEASE: For security and best support, always use the latest stable versions of WordPress and all plugins!

Via "GitHub Updater" Plugin (recommended!)

• Install & activate the "GitHub Updater" plugin, get from here: https://github.com/afragen/github-updater
• Recommended: set your API Token in the plugin's settings
• Go to "Settings > GitHub Updater > Install Plugin"
• Paste the GitHub URL https://github.com/deckerweb/automattic-humility in the "Plugin URI" field (branch "master" is pre-set), then hit the "Install Plugin" button there
• Install & activate the plugin

Manual Upload

• Download current .zip archive from master branch here, URL: https://github.com/deckerweb/automattic-humility/archive/master.zip
• Unzip the package, then rename the folder to automattic-humility, then upload renamed folder via SFTP/ FTP to your WordPress plugin directory
• Activate the plugin

Updates

• Are done via the plugin "GitHub Updater" (see above) - leveraging the default WordPress update system!
• Setting your GitHub API Token is recommended! :)
• It's so easy and seamless you won't find any better solution for this ;-)

Changelog - Version History:

--> See plugin file CHANGES.md here

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