Hackaday isn't the end-all, be-all authoritative source for anything. It's a blog that, for the most part, links to neat stuff with a summary write-up. If something interests you then it's on you to follow the links.
Sorry, all out of the good old days. All we have are people working in tech too ashamed to admit they're a willing and complicit part of the surveillance state under the auspices of working in something they also won't admit is marketing or advertising tech, but is 100% just that.
This is how the web used to work.