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Bill Gates’ Daughter Got Caught Doing Something Stupid. The Real Villain Is the Ad Industry.

Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe is accused of a dumb, old-school ad fraud scheme called cookie stuffing. The real story isn’t her last name—it’s that the entire digital advertising industry is built on a foundation so fragile that a 20-year-old trick still works. Every click you make is funding a system that doesn’t want to be fixed.