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segaloco
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segaloco
2y ago
So did a bit more digging, searching for instances of "BuyNow" in various stuff loaded and I have some suspicion now this is being done by some service worker adjacent to MSN and Bing. I flushed the service workers related to thes
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segaloco
2y ago
For the record, if anyone is trying to investigate further, the only publisher I've found that has anything matching this going on (thus far) is Newsweek. Ex: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-k
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segaloco
2y ago
Doing some analysis, this appears to be an injected bit of script attempting to automatically subscribe users to some sort of publisher of msn.com articles, as the tag type "social-lead-gen-in-article" is used for the publisher su