> You don't see the term spyware much anymore. I suppose that is the result of almost everything being spyware now. Likewise for "adware" - it seems the rise o

> You don't see the term spyware much anymore. I suppose that is the result of almost everything being spyware now. Likewise for "adware" - it seems the rise of smartphones heralded a normalisation of practices which (on the desktop) got you branded as "adware" and removed by AV/malware removal tools. Now it's accepted and normalised on any and all platform to ship both ad and spyware (i.e. detailed telemetry and cloud storage of data by default, and use of long lived or pervasive unique identifiers)