Bill Gates Daughter's Shopping App Accused of Cookie Stuffing Fraud Scheme

What was said

"Bloomberg tested the FIA mobile browser extension across more than 50 websites and found that during the checkout process, FIA opened a background tab without user interaction and injected its own referral code that overrode legitimate referrals from other publishers."

Phoebe Gates's startup FIA, which raised $43.5 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, allegedly used cookie stuffing to claim credit for sales it didn't drive, violating affiliate marketing policies. Bloomberg's investigation found the browser extension silently inserted tracking codes to steal commissions from legitimate publishers. The company previously faced allegations of logging users' private data including bank statements.