> The technical issues and neglect for users’ privacy are merely a sideshow here. These are somewhat to be expected for a small company with limited financing. Even a small company can do better however if the priorities are aligned.

I'm willing to forgive technical issues for a small company, but, if a company doesn't build to respect user privacy when it's small, then it's certainly not going to start doing so once it gets bigger.

This just seems plain illegal. It's affiliate fraud. In the past, people have gone to prison for things like cookie stuffing.

nice write up! i like that (apparently?) allcolibri founder joined the author to correct one thing but not deny anything else

There is a chrome extension called Little Rat that records/notifies every singld url a chrome extension talks to.

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

Glad to see our French Tech hard at work!

Cancer on top of cancer.