It’s the best part because it shows us how ridiculously out of control the issue of third party tracking & data collection is. You can’t even read what’s being done to address it without being subject to it.

Yeah I'm with you here. I think people could either interpret what you're saying as "they're hypocrites" or "this is absurdly pervasive."

because we are being socialized to over-react to even the hint of hypocrisy as invalidating rather than engaging in meaningful evaluation of information sources quality.

It doesn’t invalidate the article at all. Quite the opposite.