Jeeze, how is that not illegal?!
Fortunately I have blockers to block all those pixels/etc.
And yeah, FreeTaxUSA is a mostly guided wizard “fill out the forms” thing. They do offer paid for “if you need help or want a security blanket” as well as charge $15 for me, for California, filing along with generally free Federal filing. And I have various investment forms to input as well, so it’s not as if it’s only allowing the simplest most basic issues.
I still can’t believe the IRS and State tax boards don’t just send a piece of mail saying “here’s the data we have, if it’s good do nothing and here’s how much you’ll owe/we owe you, if you have something else unreported to us here’s how you amend/file that”. 90-99% of Americans would be covered by that I think, since pretty much everything gets reported already.