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The way Dilbert put it was "Your call is important to us...please hold while we ignore it."

"Our Business is life itself" ~Umbrella Corporation

In this case they're actually being consistent. Your privacy is so important to us that we won't allow you to access our website and get tracked.

It is a very safe assumption to make that anything you see or hear in media means the exact opposite.

Including your comment, I suppose? ;)

Coincidentally, the more I think about publishing to HN, the more nervous I get about my own data trail.

Not mine.*

*With apologies to The Life of Brian

It is absolutely, in no way whatsoever, even close to a safe assumption.

It is, in fact, what people who are far, far gone into conspiracy theory madness think.

Again, this is not a reasonable thing to think. It is bordering on mental illness.