"Why do they spy?" One big reason they spy because there are a lot of webdevs who either have no idea or do not care about PII. Why would someone put a link o

"Why do they spy?" One big reason they spy because there are a lot of webdevs who either have no idea or do not care about PII. Why would someone put a link on their website, to Facebook or Twitter for example, basically giving them all of their extremely valuable web logs for free? These companies make big bucks from those unnecessary "live links" and go to great lengths to avoid questions about why they "need" to be live (and they don't).