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They aren't using advertisers. They're incorrectly* using user behavior instrumentation for diagnostics and anti-fraud, especially blocking on login if tracking is disabled as they are trying to prevent credential stuffing bots.

* Bug, or feature, many fail if the tracking is blocked, due to other code that assumes it's there or depends on it. They fail closed instead of fail open.




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