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labels:
- 'Stage-Beta'
summary: 'Privacy lists (XEP-0016) support'
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Introduction
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Privacy lists are a flexible method for blocking communications.

Originally known as mod\_privacy and bundled with Prosody, this module
is being phased out in favour of the newer simpler blocking (XEP-0191)
protocol, implemented in [mod\_blocklist][doc:modules:mod_blocklist].

Configuration
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None. Each user can specify their privacy lists using their client (if
it supports XEP-0016).

Compatibility
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  0.9    Works
  0.10   Works
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