What can one say. This is how business is done. And what is scarier it is now being done by firms with all your data. https://www.marketslant.com/article/how-google-frames-out-pays-and-gets-govt-be-its-bitch
What's that thing Trump said about using the tax code to his advantage? Being smart was it? And not being partisan here, but there's a side that wanted to keep Citizens United in place and passed a recent law to undo privacy regulation on internet customers.