I feel uncomfortable about what we were doing in general. I didn't feel bad about the implementation. We were using the results of the web scraper to feed what

I feel uncomfortable about what we were doing in general. I didn't feel bad about the implementation. We were using the results of the web scraper to feed what was basically spam emails trying to recruit people to sign up for our product. In the grand scheme of things, I think that I did the most responsible thing I could have with the task I was assigned. But the task falls into a general category of things I don't approve of. It certainly wasn't illegal, and it probably wasn't unethical, but it was definitely gross, and my internal standards tell me to avoid things that make me feel gross. That said, I'm kind of pleased with the technical results. Up until that time in my career, I'd never encountered a sorting algorithm that handled things based on the proportion of similar items in an array. I'm sure that other people have done this and that there's no way it's novel at all. But it was a cool challenge to make a shady task perform in a way that didn't break other people's shit just so that we could maximize our own efficiency.