Yeah, the commercial firms invented them all on their own just to keep tracking customers and oversharing whatever data they gather with random third parties wh

Yeah, the commercial firms invented them all on their own just to keep tracking customers and oversharing whatever data they gather with random third parties while still getting to complain about stupid laws that require them to do so [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521179