There are plenty of people who don't care about the santicity of delivered web content, as can be seen by the popularity of things such as the cloud-to-butt ext

There are plenty of people who don't care about the santicity of delivered web content, as can be seen by the popularity of things such as the cloud-to-butt extension. And I am sure that the die hard Mr robot fans that are the target audience for this ARG wouldn't have seen anything wrong with that extension. As you said, the real issue here is the terrible decision to push this to everyone.