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by danirod 744 days ago
Sorry to dismiss your conspiracy theory, but if an user adds a cookie dialog into their GitHub Pages-hosted site, that's on the author, not on GitHub.
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It’s not a theory that Microsoft is buying up popular open source software tools and services and putting tons of surveillance functionality in them, as they do with all of their products. It doesn’t matter if in this particular instance the dialog was coming from Microsoft or the pages author.