Why does the plugin connect to addtoany.com?

I’m interested in this too.

I’ve turned on Cache AddToAny Locally, but still seeing a call to https://static.addtoany.com/menu/sm.23.html

Following: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_fonts_gdpr/ we’re going through all the requests to see what we need.
The above page just seems to be a function (maybe cookie related) but interested to know exactly what it’s doing before we decide to remove AddToAny.

I cant find back where I read that they use data (our…) for advertising purpose. We were using Addtoany on a few sites, removed all… On 38 other sites, bye bye.
Collecting data, well… But anyway WHY would our site need to connect to a remote server just to display some icons? ??
And developper don’t reply, of course ??

Interesting. Yeah I think it’ll be going off all ours today. I can’t see a reason why that page needs calling, I could be wrong but it doesn’t appear to add anything to our pages, it just looks like tracking.

I can see a lot of changes to plugins in the next few months given the above ruling.

As a website(s) owner, I can’t see how we could justify a connection being needed to pull any icons for social sharing. There’s a number of functions that we do need to call out for, but sharing icons I’d even place below fonts.