It was an experience that happened a single time a year ago. No money exchanged hands, it was just a fun thing they made for fan of the movie, and after the criticism, they apologized and never did it again.

Yes the parent comment makes it sound like this is something that happened all the time... I'm not sure why a comment literally spreading lies is the top comment, I guess HN loves crazy tinfoil hat alternative truth now.

Similarly with #3, it was a hardware bug that impacted a very very small number of devices, and which was fixed within hours of being reported. It was also very obvious the device was misbehaving so implying that Google was "spying" is stupid. Why would Google make the device light up and make noises if they were spying on you?

4 happened https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/am...