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A company doesn't acquire something for no reason, and people are suffering FUD over what that reason could be. Maybe they'll put in annoying popups ads for their other products. Maybe they just want market research data. Or maybe they just thought being the provider of this service would garner goodwill somehow.

Avast was caught massively spying on their users in their browser extension and anti-virus apps just a few years ago, check out their wikipedia page.

What are the scenarios that you can imagine?

Charging companies to exclude them(adblock way)

companies have to provide the cookie prompt as a legal requirement - it's not something they want to do or get any benefit from. what this extension does is blindly accept the cookie prompts.

it's not something any company would want to be exempted from. companies like this.

Companies only need that if they place nonessential cookies.

Irrelevant in this thread