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Ha. Here's the direct source: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
This reads like a dystopian fever dream, fuck me.
Literally none of that should be surprising for people who have a basic understanding of how the WWW works.
Which, I'm starting to realize, is a depressively low fraction of the general population. I was taught this in middle school, for fuck's sake.