Comment by zaptheimpaler

I'm probably going to called a lunatic but I'm convinced this kind of telemetry is somehow linked to and behind the huge coordinated advertising push for VPNs in the last few years. More and more, the "invisible hand of the market" seems like literally the hands of a few very large conglomerations of power and capital that shape the economics of the entire market to effectively control it - they shape the gradient and make sure companies optimize loss. VPNs are either directly spyware that increases tracking capability, or are being offered now because they don't need your IP to track you anymore so they might as well make money off your fears while still tracking you. More broadly, I don't see much of a free market or democracy left anymore, now every government is doing a coordinated push to eliminate privacy as well.