You're right. Ugh I can't remember either, but I vaguely remember learning about it on Hacker News. It was nothing technically illegal or anything malicious, i

You're right. Ugh I can't remember either, but I vaguely remember learning about it on Hacker News. It was nothing technically illegal or anything malicious, it was just normal web-cookie tracking in overdrive. Then the company whose page you hit pays the tracking company for the information. There have been universities that looked into it for their admissions pages, but decided against it.