I’ve literally asked about it on rednote.

“Works on my machine.”

That makes it sound like a secular version of thoughts and prayers.

The Denver post’s page reloaded itself and then told me I was over my view count and need to subscribe. As my thumb moved to the X, the page reloaded again to load me an ad.

Enforcement is social control and protection of property.

“Common data shared included IP addresses, browser info, pages visited, referring site.”

Is this not common practice for any website?