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>Nope. Calling it ethical decision is a stretch. Worst case scenario - you close the tab and move on with your life. If anyone loses then it's the business, not
by Sir_Substance 10y ago
>Nope. Calling it ethical decision is a stretch. Worst case scenario - you close the tab and move on with your life. If anyone loses then it's the business, not you.
So here's the thing: That's a perfectly reasonable standpoint, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
If you want to run your website like this, you lose the moral highground to declare it wrong when I order my browser to automatically disassemble their website and strip out all their cookies, all their ads and all their popups.
You are also the one that has to answer to your peers if I just leave those tools running out of sheer laziness when I go to other, less pernicious websites.