I suppose this article, if nothing else, helps illustrate the difference between opportunistic companies that install crapware that tracks us and exfiltrates al

I suppose this article, if nothing else, helps illustrate the difference between opportunistic companies that install crapware that tracks us and exfiltrates all the data it can and nefarious parties that do the exact same thing, but don't pay the vendor for the privilege. "Hey - they shouldn't take your data - that's our job! We paid to do that!"