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This just proves all the "suspicions" privacy-conscious users have had about large corporations fingerprinting users, often in very obvious ways. There's often no better place to find ideas for surveillance than the people conscious about being surveilled.

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Many of the SEO suspicions were confirmed too.

I found it VERY amusing if you go to r/SEO just yesterday there were moderators and flaired users (you know, the elites of the SEO community, lol) insisting much of this was "debunked" years ago.

They of course deleted their posts, but the threads are still up. What a den of scammers over there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d1eqjj/comment/l5tvfw...

https://www.reddit.com/user/WebLinkr/

I love how reddit is turning into the new SEO scam over night because of this stuff. Great work as always Danny Sullivan!

It's just endlessly fascinating to me the grift on rSEO

How these types first gain moderator status on a few subs and then the spam begins (picture of spam https://pixeldrain.com/u/a6qUPjTq )

I haven't been able to find a single legitimate expert in the entire sub, and I've checked about every flaired user and moderator.

You have lots of people like the above, or https://www.reddit.com/user/jesustellezllc/ that claim to run an agency in Frenso California called Ozelot Media, but when you look him up there's nothing. When you google "SEO" + "Fresno California", Ozelot media isn't even in the top 100 results. Lol, I thought that was the job of a SEO-type? Why let that stop the grift though?

SEO is vandalism and I one day hope the majority of Internet users see that

SEO is just another form of advertising, with all the costs, benefits and externalities of any other form.

I had experience working with seo specialist, most of people in seo are there because good money is paid by startups to bring there site organic traffic by whatever black hat seo method, seo stands a good marketing tool for these startups.

Advertising is also vandalism

Without agreeing, I'm sympathetic to that point of view.

Most people are aware but are powerless to do anything about it.

Perhaps, though a world without SEO doesn't necessarily surface the best content either. Not everything about Google's algorithm that's subpar is because of spam or SEO.

There's no world with SEO that is a positive, don't delude yourself

I didn't say anything like that, don't delude yourself.

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