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by dmitriid 2949 days ago
No. They are tracking you because they are entirely oblivious to privacy and to the stuff they run on their websites.

A lot of those links and trackers and what-nots come from affiliate networks, or because some marketing manager said it would be better that way. And now they are suddenly alerted to the fact that they run 30+ trackers on their sites, and believe you me they have very vague idea about what those trackers are doing.