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This helps reduce fingerprinting, hardens your site against automated scanners, and keeps your HTML clean.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is <strong>no admin interface<\/strong> and <strong>no configuration required<\/strong>. Activate the plugin and it immediately removes:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress generator meta tag<\/li>\n<li>Version query strings from scripts and styles<\/li>\n<li>REST API discovery links<\/li>\n<li>oEmbed discovery links<\/li>\n<li>RSS generator tags<\/li>\n<li>Shortlink tags<\/li>\n<li>RSD (Really Simple Discovery) link<\/li>\n<li>Windows Live Writer manifest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>This plugin is intentionally small, efficient, and dependency free. 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