Well, I agree—that's interesting. It implies that something real is happening, though not that the OP's interpretation was accurate. It often happens in such cases that the observation is right but the interpretation is wrong [1]. It's when the interpretation rushes into angry denunciation, and especially a campaign using baity tricks to rile people up, that fair-minded readers start to have adverse reactions.

A discussion oriented more around a question (what explains this odd phenomenon?) could be a good thing. A more neutral submission, with a less baity title, might get a different reception from the community. But the combination of overstated claims and baity denunciation is usually going to trigger an immune response.

[1] I have no idea if it's wrong or not, just that a lot of informed commenters reacted that way.

Indeed. It’s almost as though Loren was reading this thread an took your advice. His post as of a few hours ago (he continues to troubleshoot this with google and tons of people experiencing the same thing)

https://twitter.com/lorenb/status/1339372013232779264

“ Also, sincere apologies for any misleading language in the original post, coming down off my fury that this was possible (helps not wanting to hurl your mac through a wall).

Thanks to everyone for coming through now with samples/evidence.

Something's up, but I'll shut up now.“

Thanks, as always for the calming and wise guidance Dang.