I keep being baffled at how transgressions tend to get handwaved away with "everybody does it" by some commenters on Hacker News. First, there are plenty of lo

I keep being baffled at how transgressions tend to get handwaved away with "everybody does it" by some commenters on Hacker News. First, there are plenty of locations where advertising is heavily regulated. Second, even in locations where that is not true, "everybody does it" does not justify anything. Every surgeon used to perform their job without washing their hands, and yet we got rid of that behavior.