I'm not praising their behavior, but can understand them doing this. In this day and age, it's almost impossible to grow an online service without doing somethi

I'm not praising their behavior, but can understand them doing this. In this day and age, it's almost impossible to grow an online service without doing something somewhat shady (ie AirBnb getting users from Craigslist). Of course you can cross the line. I somehow doubt this is going to cost them anything substantial though. The tech audience will know about it but the casual users will be ignorant, and just shrug it off. Pinterest's core audience are not techies.