Phoebe Gates

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.

The Shopping Extension You Trust Is Probably Stealing From You

Phia, a startup backed by Bill Gates’ daughter and a parade of celebrities, was caught stuffing cookies on users’ browsers. But the real scandal isn’t one company — it’s the entire affiliate marketing industry that makes fraud inevitable. Your shopping extension isn’t a tool; it’s a commission-stealing parasite. Uninstall it now.