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I expect it's because the firms wanted to use these values in Google Analytics to do analysis of their own customers. https://support.google.com/analytics/answ

• taftster 3y ago
  Right. Someone at H&R Block wanted to know "what pages or functions do people with 1 dependent use the most". This query seems innocent enough. It's maybe logical and an easy thing to ask for without realizing the implications. I would bet this type of thing happens with LOTS of sites that collect any sort of personal data. Obviously for us here, blocking analytic platforms through an adblock tool is a smart thing to do, exactly for this reason. But obviously that doesn't scale to the masses.